The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, by Emmanuel Goldstein in the novel 1984 describes the Party’s ideology as an Oligarchical Collectivism, which “rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement initially stood, and it does so in the name of Socialism”. Emmanuel Goldstein’s theory is very significant in the standings of the novel; it was this philosophy that would be a form of doublethink.
Big Brother exemplifies the Party, as the omnipresent face relentlessly represented in posters and the telescreen, hence, Big Brother is always watching. Ingsoc (is the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania) commands the complete compliance of mental, moral and physical obedience of its people, and will persecute and punish to attain it. Ingsoc is a marvelously convoluted and complicated system of psychological dominance that induces confession to fictional crimes and the forgetting of disobedient and rebellious thought in order to love Big Brother and the Party over oneself. The objective of Ingsoc is political control, power, O’Brien explains to Winston:
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
Orwell, George. “PART THREE Excerpted from the Book 1984 by George Orwell.”http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Authors/Part_Three_1984.html. N.p., n.d. Web.
Big Brother In Germany 