Ideologies / Leninist-Marxist / O'Brien
Fiction§ The minds · fictional · Oceania · Inner Party official (fiction)
O'Brien
The boot stamping forever
Power as its own absolute end.
Economic−90
SocialistMarket
Governance+85
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+0
TraditionalProgressive
Orwell's Inner Party interrogator, the embodiment of totalitarianism stripped of all pretence — power sought purely for its own sake.
social
Annihilates the past, family and loyalty in favour of the Party alone.
economic
Total collectivism — the Party owns everything and everyone.
governance
Pure totalitarian control; the dictatorship perfected beyond any purpose but power.
Notable for
- Embodies the totalitarian state (in-story)
- 'A boot stamping on a human face — forever'
- Reeducates Winston Smith
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