"If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated."

Winston delves into the power of the majority in his profound statement describing that they only way that the society could be taken down was with the least able minded group who made up the majority. Of course the great perdicament was that they were the least apt to do so.