Orwell, George — Nineteen eighty-four [78]

The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters, perhaps even – so it was occasionally rumoured – in some hiding-place in Oceania itself. — Orwell, George, Nineteen eighty-four, 78

Note

The construction of a necessary enemy — the internal/external ‘primal traitor’ required by a state to justify perpetual policing. The etymological chain ‘traitor…defiler…heresies…deviations’ shows how orthodoxy manufactures its own origin myth.