<P> When alone in the room above Mr. Charrington's shop, Winston examines the book before reading it noting that it was: </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> A heavy black volume, amateurishly bound, with no name or title on the cover . The print also looked slightly irregular . The pages were worn at the edges, and fell apart easily, as though the book had passed through many hands . The inscription on the title - page ran: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM by Emmanuel Goldstein </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> A heavy black volume, amateurishly bound, with no name or title on the cover . The print also looked slightly irregular . The pages were worn at the edges, and fell apart easily, as though the book had passed through many hands . The inscription on the title - page ran: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM by Emmanuel Goldstein </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> The term "oligarchical collectivism" refers not only to the ideology of the Party 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"). 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 . That the three "opposing" ideologies are functionally identical is central to the revelations of The Book . </P>

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