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.
The Iron law of oligarchy is a political theory, first developed by the German sociologist Robert Michels in his book 1915 Political Parties. Michels was an anarcho-syndicalist at the time he formulated the Law. He later became an important ideologue of Mussolini's fascist regime in Italy.