Carl Freedman instead states that it is based on ex-Trotskyist James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution. Decker identifies it as a parody of Leon Trotsky's real-life book The Revolution Betrayed. That the three "opposing" ideologies are functionally identical is central to the revelations of The Book. Winston reads two long excerpts establishing how the three totalitarian super-states – Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia – emerged from a global war, thus connecting the past and the present, and explains the basic political philosophy of the totalitarianism that derived from the authoritarian political tendencies manifested in the twentieth century. The term "oligarchical collectivism" refers not only to the Party's ideology of Ingsoc (English Socialism) but also to the ideologies of the other two states (Neo-Bolshevism in Eurasia in Eastasia, "Death Worship" or "Obliteration of the Self"). The pages were worn at the edges, and fell apart easily, as though the book had passed through many hands. The print also looked slightly irregular. Charrington's shop, Winston examines the book, before reading it, noting that it was: “Ī heavy black volume, amateurishly bound, with no name or title on the cover. O'Brien says reveals the true, totalitarian nature of the society the Party established in Oceania: Full membership to the Brotherhood requires reading it. Initially, he appears as such, especially in arranging for Winston to receive a copy of Goldstein's illegal book. Eventually, he approaches O'Brien, a high-level member of the Inner Party, believing him part of the Brotherhood, Goldstein's conspiracy against Oceania, Big Brother, and the Party. The protagonist, Winston Smith, secretly hates the Party and Big Brother.
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