Ingsoc [SEP] present in work
Ingsoc
The English Socialist Party, better known as Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism), is the fictional political party of the totalitarian government of Oceania in George Orwell's dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". George Orwell, a self-avowed democratic socialist, feared that a totalitarian impulse would deviate socialism in his native Britain from its age-old creeds and would result in a society governed by an ideology resembling that of Ingsoc.
Fictional origins.
Oceania, the fictional superstate in George Orwell's "
but once technological advances make equality possible, the Middle abandons their former promises, as socialism only stands in the way of their aims; they become explicitly tyrannical and openly hostile to equality. The new rhetoric of the Middle becomes Ingsoc and hierarchical collectivism. This pursuit of naked power, without any pretense of concern for equality, distinguishes the Party from previous tyrannies, though the Party initially justifies its control through dedication to socialism. By focusing on collectivism, the Party can consolidate their power and present Ingsoc as an inevitable followup to