The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism

Most books usually convey a message to their audience. For example, many dystopian novels convey how not to govern, how not to behave as a society. Some of the novels are based on real events, real societies and governments that existed when the book was written, like communist regimes for instance. Two of the most famous dystopian novels are Animal Farm and 1984. Surely, these two books have a lot in common like how both books were set in England, written by George Orwell, and based on the…

(Orwell 6), and “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” (Orwell 6). These slogans are incredibly contradictory in nature, and at first glance make no sense at all. They are however explained in chapter three of Emmanuel Goldstein’s book, THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM, which is revealed later on in the novel to have actually been written by the O’Brien and Thought Police. The book explains how, even though the slogans are contradictory and nonsensical at first, they actually can be proven…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…