The dystopian future depicted featured a spy state that also exploited its own workers (a common theme of Marxism). This exaggerated version of capitalism divided the population into three classes. The inner circle, the outer circle and the proles. The innermost circle consisted of the bourgeois, the outer circle and the proles were more similar to the labor force and the impressionable (if not ignorant) malleable population respectively (although both together constituted the proletariat class). Within the book, Marx's alleged end of capitalism is mentioned. “'If there is hope,' wrote Winston, 'it lies with the proles'” (Orwell 1949). This is an allusion to the work of Marx, who said that the only way to end capitalism was for the proletariat to unite and launch their forces.