Ingsoc
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| Universe | Nineteen Eighty-Four |
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| Type | Political party |
| Leader | Big Brother |
| Key people |
O'Brien Emmanuel Goldstein (later defected) |
| Slogan | "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength." "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." "Big Brother is Watching You." "Proles and Animals are free" |
| Colours | Black, White, Red |
| Political ideology |
Oligarchical collectivism Big Brotherism Totalitarianism |
Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism or the English Socialist Party) is the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Oceania appears to have emerged as a formal political union of the United States and the countries of the British Commonwealth, which later annexed the remainder of the Americas and all of Southern Africa. Big Brother and Emmanuel Goldstein led the Party to power in Oceania after a revolution of some kind. After the Party achieved control of Oceania, Ingsoc became the official governing ideology and other political beliefs were increasingly marginalized. Goldstein and Big Brother later became enemies, and differed in their interpretation of Ingsoc.
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, by Emmanuel Goldstein, describes the Party's ideology as an Oligarchical Collectivism, which "rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it does so in the name of Socialism". It is noteworthy that, in the terms of the book, this ideology would be a form of doublethink.
Big Brother personifies the Inner Party, as the ubiquitous face constantly depicted in posters and the telescreen. Thus, Big Brother is constantly watching. Ingsoc demands the complete submission – mental, moral and physical – of the people, and will torture to achieve it (see Room 101). Ingsoc is a masterfully complex system of psychological control that compels confession to imagined crimes and the forgetting of rebellious thought in order to love Big Brother and the Party over oneself. The purpose of Ingsoc is political control, power per se; glibly, O'Brien explains to Smith:
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