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Ingsoc ("English Socialism") originated after the socialist revolution, but, because The Party continually rewrites history, it is impossible to establish the precise origin of English Socialism. Oceania originated from the union of the Americas with the British Empire. Big Brother and Emmanuel Goldstein led the Party’s socialist revolution, yet Goldstein turned against Big Brother, becoming his enemy. However, it is debatable whether Big Brother and Goldstein actually exist, and are not just fabrications by the party to inspire love and hatred, respectively. Besides its continual historical revisionism, The Party also is continually rewriting the English language into Newspeak, a language whose concision limits the true denotation(s) of words and the ideas they represent; hence the esoteric Newspeak acronym "Ingsoc" replaced the Oldspeak "English Socialism."

The Ingsoc political ideology is widely regarded as similar to Stalinism.

Source: Wikipedia