Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Louis Ochoa

Here is a list of categories, with corresponding quotes from each book to show the parallels.

Newspeak

CoEHM:
(President Sukarno) recruited an international team of linguist, and Bahasa Indonesia was the highly successful result. based on Malay, it avoids amny of the tense changes, irregular verbs, and other complications that characterize most languages. By the early 1970's, the majority of indonesians spoke it, although they continued to rely on Javanese and other local dialects within their own communities.

1984:

We're getting the language into it's final shape - the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we've finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think... that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We're destroying words - scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We're cutting the language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition woon't contain a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050.



Separation of class:

CoEHM:

The income ratio of the one-fifth of the worlds population in the wealthiest countried to the one-fifth in the poorest went from 30 to 1 in 1960 to 74 to 1 in 1995.

MAIN would be called a closely held corporation; roughly 5 percent of its two thousand employees owned the company.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Yet from a statistical standpoint, this is recorded as economic progress.

1984:

Here in London, the great mass of the people never had enough to eat from birth to death.... At the same time there were a very few people, only a few thousands - the capitalists, they were called - who were rich and powerful. They owned everything there was to own.

Below Big Brother comes the Inner Party, its numbers limited to six millions, or something less than two percent of the population of Oceania. Below the Inner Party comes the Outer Party, which, if the Inner Party is described as the brain of the State, may be justly likened the the hands. Below that comes the dumb masses whom we habitually refer to as "the proles," numbering perhaps eighty-five per cent of the population. In terms of our earlier classification, the proles are the Low, for the slave populations of the equatorial lands, who pass constantly from conqueror to conqueror, are not a permanent of necessary part of the structure.


Control of Information:

CoEHM:

He (Roldos) died in a fiery plane crash on May 24, 1981. The world was shocked, Latin Americans were outraged. Newspapers throughout the hemisphere blazed , "CIA Assassination!" Many circumstances appeared to support these allegations. Despite world reactions, the news hardy made the U.S. press.

1984:

There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.

It was known that the chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no references to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere.

Doublethink:

CoEHM:

Charlie... badgered me about the need to be optimistic in my forecasts. (He) had made it clear that he expected Howard and me to come up with growth rates of at least 17 percent per annum.

"Charlie Illingworth tells me that your economic forecast is right on target and will justify load growth of between 17 and 20 percent. Is that right?"
I assured him it was.
He stood up and offered me his hand. "Congratulations. You've just been promoted."

I came up with the type of study my bosses wanted to see: a growth in electric demand averaging 19 percent per annum for twelve years after the new system was completed, tapering down to 17 percent for eight years, and then holding at 15 percent for the remainder of the twenty-five-year projection.

1984:

The party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated.

Applied to a party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when party discipline demands this.

War is Peace

CoEHM:

The United States spends over 87 Billion conducting a war in Iraqwhile the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitation services, and basic education to every person on the planet.

1984:

The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world...The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor

The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

War, it will be seen, not only accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way.

Orthodoxy:

CoEHM:

The system is fueled by a concept that has become gospel: the idea that all economic growth benefits humankind and the the greater the growth, the more widespread the benefits. This belief also has a corollary; that those people who excel at stoking the fires of economic growth should be exalted and rewarded, while those born on the fringes are available for exploitation.

1984:

Though you could not actually hear what the man was saying, you could not be in any doubts about its general nature. He might be denouncing Goldstein and demanding sterner measures against thought-criminals and saboteurs, he might be fulminating against the atrocities of the Eurasian army, he might be praising Big Brother or the heroes on the Malabar front - It made no difference. Whatever it was, you could be certain every word of it was pure orthodoxy, pure Ingsoc... The stuff coming out of him was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.


Resistance to Institutions

CoEHM:

When enough of us become aware of how we are being exploited by the economic engine that creates an insatiable appetite for the worlds resources, and results in systems that foster slavery, we will no longer tolerate it. We will reassess our roll in a world where few swim in riches and the majority drown in poverty, pollution and violence. We will commit ourselves to navigating a course toward compassion, democracy, and social justice for all.

1984:

If there is hope, it lies in the Proles

She took it for granted that everyone, or nearly everyone, hated the party and would break the rules if he thought it safe to do so.