1984 blog post #6

"the old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love and justice. Ours is founded upon hatred" (Orwell 267).
This one statement could easily sum up every party platform we've read about thus far. The party is most certainly not founded on love or justice, indeed they make it their business to destroy it. The party is founded upon hatred for everything that is not the party. The party hates everything that potentially takes away its power.

The two minutes hate is another example of how the party is based around hate. This event is supposed to draw the people together, because they all hate the opposing countries. Thus the very nationalism that holds Oceania together is hatred.

This hate is ideally supposed to translate into every party member's subconscious. They are taught to hate their very human natures, the natures that lead them to question where the party's power stems from. They are taught to hate their own free thoughts, their own free will, and their own humanity.

The only thing they are taught to love is Big Brother. In the book this is exemplified when O'Brien tells Winston that his final step is to love Big Brother. At the end of this section, Winston says that he still hates Big Brother, and this is the tiny scrap of humanity that he has left, aside from never betraying Julia.