comparative - the comparative form of an adjective or adverb; `faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'; `less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'; `more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'
In their torture chamber conversations, he tells Winston that The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, the book by Emmanuel Goldstein, was written by a committee that included him. When Winston asks O'Brien if the book is true, he replies: As description, yes.
Vilfredo Pareto elaborated the idea in his doctrine of the âelite.â. The German sociologist Robert Michels devised the concept of the âIron Law of Oligarchyâ to refer to what he regarded as the inevitable tendency of political parties and trade unions to become bureaucratized, centralized, and conservative.