![]() ![]() Yet, as Vincent Bevins writes in his trenchant new book, The Jakarta Method, “Most people know very little about Indonesia, and almost nothing about what happened in 1965–66 in that archipelago nation. This repression of a political vocabulary is one of the more subtle legacies of the Cold War, which in Indonesia saw an anticommunist genocide of staggering proportions in 19, killing at least half a million people and imprisoning another million. In the discussion that followed we came to realize that the culprit was likely the word’s Marxist affiliation, however much it has been forgotten thanks to popular use in the United States. ![]() Scholars from Europe and the United States spoke of “hegemony”-a concept often associated with the work of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci-without hesitation or explanation, but many Indonesian colleagues in attendance, one young scholar admitted to me, had never encountered the term. The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our WorldĮight years ago, at an academic conference in Jakarta, I was struck by the absence of a word. ![]()
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