Ingsoc

He did not believe he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form — ‘English Socialism’, that is to say — it had been current earlier.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

He did not believe he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form — ‘English Socialism’, that is to say — it had been current earlier.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

Many of the beliefs and attitudes demanded of him are never plainly stated, and could not be stated without laying bare the contradictions inherent in Ingsoc.

Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

While 1984 was a warning against totalitarianism of both the Nazi (that is, National Socialist) and communist (that is, Soviet Socialist) kind — hence "Ingsoc" — much of the physical detail was derived from his experience of wartime London, working in the BBC, itself a considerable British bureaucracy in close touch with the

Orwell's List 2003

All aspects of life in Oceania are permeated with the principles of "Ingsoc," or English Socialism in Newspeak.

'Making Political Writing Into An Art' - Celebrating the Centenary of Orwell's Birth 2003

That is why the ideology of the ruling party in Oceania was described as "Ingsoc," an abbreviation of "English Socialism," and why the dreary daily existence of Winston Smith and his fellow citizens was modeled on life not only in wartime Britain, as Shelden suggests, but in Britain before the war, as it was experienced by millions of its poorer citizens.

Orwell: The Authorized Biography (review) 1992

Its importance for understanding 1984 is that the official Party ideology is "Ingsoc", an abbreviation of "English Socialism".

Background information for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

While 1984 was a warning against totalitarianism of both the Nazi (that is, National Socialist) and communist (that is, Soviet Socialist) kind ” hence "Ingsoc" ” much of the physical detail was derived from his experience of wartime London, working in the BBC, itself a considerable British bureaucracy in close touch with the Ministry of Information and home to the original Room 101.

Orwell's List Ash, Timothy Garton 2003