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“Idealism is the last luxury that only the young possess.”
Revolutionary and writer · 1897 – 1949
Tan Malaka was an Indonesian independence activist, philosopher, and writer who spent decades in exile agitating against Dutch colonial rule. His book Madilog argued for reason and materialism as tools of liberation.
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