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.
Leon Trotsky is the likely model for Orwell's Emmanuel Goldstein: a former member of the Party inner circle who had been purged and declared an enemy by the Soviet state he had helped to found, and subsequently a critic of its social system in exile, as Goldstein critiques the system of Oceania.hat the three opposing ideologies are functionally identical is central to the revelations of The Book. The term oligarchical collectivism is similar to the theory of bureaucratic collectivism put forth by some Trotskyists in the late 1930s.