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Det totalitære og opprørske i 'Newspeak' -

Roger Scruton defines totalitarianism as
the absence of constraint on central authority (..)
Advocates of totalitarianism feed on resentment, Scruton argues, and
having seized power they proceed to abolish institutions —
such as the law, property, and religion —
that create authorities.

"To the resentful it is these institutions that are the cause of inequality,
and therefore the cause of their humiliations and failures."
He argues that

revolutions are not conducted from below by the people,

but from above, in the name of the people, by an aspiring elite.

Scruton suggests that the importance of Newspeak in totalitarian societies

is that the power of language to describe reality is replaced
by language whose purpose is to avoid encounters with realities.

...the totalitarian society envisaged by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
can be only understood in theological terms, as a society founded on a
transcendental negation.