I always believed religion was incompatible with a society rooted in addressing material reality, although I know we have have religious users and wanted to hear people's takes.

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    In 1924, Haji Omar Said Tjokroaminoto, the leader of Sarekat Islam, then the biggest political party in Indonesia, published a monograph (113 pages) on Islam and socialism.

    Is there any chance you can point me to an English translation of this text? I seem to be getting texts of the same title by other authors

    • echognomics [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Unfortunately, I don't think there's ever been a full translation of Tjokroaminoto's Islam dan Sosialisme into English. :-(

      In my English copy of Syed Hussen Alatas's Islam and Socialism (which is itself a translation from Malay to English) from which I copied the above extracts, the footnotes say that the English translation of Tjokroaminoto's words being quoted are Alatas's own translation. In fact, I think the only extant full translation of Tjokroaminoto's book is from the original Indonesian to Malay.