Václav Havel’s 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless is eerily relevant today
- Written by Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Professor of History, Australian Catholic University
Václav Havel waves to a crowd in Prague celebrating the communist regime's capitulation in December 1989.Lubomir Kotek/GettyWhen Czech political dissident, playwright and poet Václav Havel wrote The Power of the Powerless in October 1978, he was not offering a manifesto in any conventional political sense. Nor was he outlining a...





