The author manages to handle this issue by constantly drawing parallels between the state of Ingsoc and that of the Soviet Union. These parallels focus on the dangerous path of dictatorship as both governments are “not interested in the good of others; [they] are only interested in power.” (Orwell 301 – 302) Looking solely at the methods of social control it is evident that Orwell is rallying the communists and drawing the attention of nations to the horror of communist nations as they attempt to control their population. Despite Orwell's willingness to denounce extreme communism, he offers no real solution to the problem at hand. He insinuates that perhaps the power to overthrow the government rests with the proletariat (89), but immediately condemns this idea by saying that “Until they become conscious they will never rebel and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious” (90). suggesting that if a nation were ever to reach this nightmarish level of totalitarianism it wouldn't even know it could live differently, and therefore there would be no more