<P> The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism , credited to the character Emmanuel Goldstein , is the fictional book that is used as a thematic and plot element in Part 2 , Chapter 9 of the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty - Four ( 1949 ) , by George Orwell . According to Orwell 's plot , in the totalitarian society of Oceania -- ruled by the seemingly omnipotent , omniscient Party -- Emmanuel Goldstein ( in the Party 's propaganda ) is the principal enemy of the state : a former member of the Inner Party continually conspiring against the leadership of Big Brother . Early in the story , the protagonist thinks to himself : `` There were ... whispered stories of a terrible book , a compendium of all the heresies , of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there . It was a book without a title . People referred to it , if at all , simply as The Book '' . </P>
<P> The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism , credited to the character Emmanuel Goldstein , is the fictional book that is used as a thematic and plot element in Part 2 , Chapter 9 of the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty - Four ( 1949 ) , by George Orwell . According to Orwell 's plot , in the totalitarian society of Oceania -- ruled by the seemingly omnipotent , omniscient Party -- Emmanuel Goldstein ( in the Party 's propaganda ) is the principal enemy of the state : a former member of the Inner Party continually conspiring against the leadership of Big Brother . Early in the story , the protagonist thinks to himself : `` There were ... whispered stories of a terrible book , a compendium of all the heresies , of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there . It was a book without a title . People referred to it , if at all , simply as The Book '' . </P>
who wrote the theory and practice of oligarchical collectivism
who wrote the theory and practice of oligarchical collectivism
Emmanuel Goldstein
Emmanuel Goldstein