Emmanuel Goldstein

In their turn to totalitarianism, by way of English Socialism (Ingsoc), Goldstein broke with Big Brother and The Party, and then founded The Brotherhood to oppose their government of Oceania.

To prolong and deepen the anger of the spectators, the telescreen then shows images of Goldstein walking among the parading soldiers of the current enemy of Oceania—either Eurasia or Eastasia.

In contrast, Meyers cited Isaac Deutscher's biographical account of Trotsky which presented him to be a much more civilised figure than Stalin and suggested that he would not have purged the Red Army generals or millions of Soviet citizens.

(1971), the opportunistic geopolitics of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's official visit (21–28 February 1972) to the People's Republic of China—then a Communist enemy of the U.S. during the tripolar stage (1956–1991) of the Cold War—were compared to the historical and political analyses of Emmanuel Goldstein about the continually shifting military alliances among the three super-states, Eastasia, Oceania, and Eurasia, described in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).

[16][17] About the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks against the U.S., in the essay "Osama and Goldstein" (2001), Prof. William L. Anderson said that the ideological and political utility of publicly showing parallels between Emmanuel Goldstein and Osama bin Laden facilitated and justified the U.S. government's unilateral attacks against the perceived enemies of the state and the perceived enemies of the people of the United States of America.

Walker said that: Goldstein is the Osama Bin Laden figure in Orwell's novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)], an extremely elusive person who is never seen, never captured, but believed by the leadership of Oceania to be still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters.

[19]In Worst-Case Scenarios (2009), the jurist Cass Sunstein coined the term the Goldstein Effect to describe a government's "ability to intensify public concern, by giving a definite face to the adversary, specifying a human source of the underlying threat.

"[20] In the case of the American War on Terrorism (2001), the government of the U.S. and the American news media respectively identified Saddam Hussein of Iraq (r. 1979–2003) and Osama bin Laden, of Saudi Arabia, as synonymous with terrorism, which parallels The Party's psychological manipulations of the population of Oceania with and during the sessions of Two Minutes' Hate featuring the sights and sounds of the wars and conspiracies of Emmanuel Goldstein and The Brotherhood against Oceania, The Party, and Big Brother.

He has come to serve the same role for the [Orbán] government as Emmanuel Goldstein did for the totalitarian state [of Oceania] in George Orwell's 1984: A mythical, shadowy enemy used to focus people's hatred, and whose imaginary schemes supposedly justify the régime's complete grip on power.