“Yes, this is a prequel to George Orwell’s 1984.”
Throw in Huxley’s Brave New World and Rand’s Anthem and you have a complete blueprint for the future amongst the social woarriors.
I have a recording of an old radio drama adaptation of Brave New World and is introduced by Huxley (about 1955). He said that he wrote the book as a warning and his mistake was to place it far into the future. He said it was not too far off. He was amazingly prescient.