Dimitri’s Reviews > The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 > Status Update

Orwell's description of the proles is the least persuasive element of 1974,it is hardly credible that a regime obsessed with absolute control would allow 85% of the population to lie beyond the reach of the Tought Police & telescreens, not that the proles would be immune to doublethink. You can't have totalitarianism without the masses. The world of the proles is a caricature of capitalism rather like [Huxley]