
- Publisher:
- VINTAGE
- Year of publication:
- 2018
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78487-504-6
- Pages:
- 160
THE POWER OF THE POWERLESS
VACLAV HAVEL
Václav Havels 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 grocers unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, Václav Havels 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.'Havels diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump' Pankaj Mishra