Max Havelaar: Or, the Coffee Auctions of The Dutch Trading CompanyA brilliantly inventive fiction that is also a work of burning political outrage, Max Havelaar tells the story of a renegade Dutch colonial administrators ultimately unavailing struggle to end the exploitation of the Indonesian peasantry. Havelaars impassioned expos is framed by the fatuous reflections of an Amsterdam coffee trader, Drystubble, into whose hands it has fallen. Thus a tale of the jungles and villages of Indonesia is interknit with one

According to Guénon

the great powers of the age

capitalism emerged within a robust civil society that constrained and counterbalanced its centrifugal forces

the margins to scribble in

Multatuli (meaning “I have suffered greatly”) was the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker

and how activists and their organizations can become more resistant to the influence of elites

and a zest for life

but many of the commission’s sharpest insights never made it into print

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The revolutionary spirit that inspired political movements across the world for two centuries may have died out

This new politics challenged the class power of urban elites as well as the centralizing tendencies of national social-democratic movements

a translation of Greek enargeia