In chapter seven, Winston writes in his diary that "any hope for revolution against the Party must come from the proles". He says this due to the fact that since the proles make up eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, they could easily gather the strength and manpower to overthrow the party. The thing is, the proles are ignorant and they don't even know or understand why the Party is oppressing them. Also in chapter seven, Winston tries to learn about the past through a children's history book. Lacking a reliable official record though, it seemed as if Winston didn't know what to think about the past. He does not believe that the party has done all of the things that it says it has done but he cannot know for sure since the history was written entirely by the Party.
In chapter eight, Winston decides to go for a walk through the prole district and he observes the simple lives of the common people. He walks into a bar and he sees an old man. Believing him to be a possible link to the past, Winston decides to ask him a couple questions but then realizes that the old man's memory seems to be quite vague. Winston laments that the past had been left to the proles since they will ultimately forget.
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