A review by orianeosaurus
The Myth of the Lazy Native: A Study of the Image of the Malays, Filipinos and Javanese from the 16th to the 20th Century and Its Function in the Ideology of Colonial Capitalism by Syed Hussein Alatas

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

Very interesting interesting #hottake on "Revolusi Mental" published by UMNO in 1971, on Mahathir, on the opium trade, on class criticism, on Karl Marx, on colonial capitalism & ideology prior & during colonialism in these 3 countries. 

Nice to read non-mainstream opinions!