Pynchon and fascism

[s~Z]

"Orwell ... had quickly learned the difference between real and phony
antifascism"

and:

 "... the 'official Left', meaning basically the British Labour Party,
most of which he had come, well before the Second World War, to regard
as potentially, if not already, fascist".

>>>I look at these two statements, P discussing O's attitude, P reading O
reading the way political organisations going about their business; I notice
a connection, to do with the distinction between real and phony
antifascists, on the one hand, and the official as opposed to dissident left
on the other.<<<

So in the first statement you see a distinction being made between real and
phony antifascism. That is obvious to me. Then, in the second statement you
see a distinction between official and dissident left. Okay. Then, you
notice a connection. The connection is what exactly? That each statement
makes a distinction between two types of a given political persuasion?