Page "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" Paragraph 6

Moreover, by the mid-twentieth century, technology had rendered feasible a totalitarian society ; electronic apparatuses, such as the telescreen ( transceiving television ) allowed continuous governmental espionage of the populace: " The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time ".

After the revolutionary period of the 1950s and the 1960s, society divided itself into the High ( Inner Party ), the Middle ( Outer Party ), and the Low ( Proles ); the first used technology to establish themselves as the perpetual ruling class.

The Inner Party, collectively fixed their privileged command-status when the old-style Socialists failed to perceive that the Party ’ s assumption of societal command had only concentrated political power to fewer people than under the deposed capitalism.

They believed that the abolishment of private property had established Socialism, when it, in fact, established economic inequality.