V clav Havel s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, V clav Havel s meditation on political dissent the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite it would prove the guiding manifesto for uniting Solidarity movements across the Soviet Union. A portrait of activism in the face of falsehood and intimidation, The Power of the Powerless remains a rousing call against the allure of apathy.’Havel s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump’ Pankaj Mishra
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