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| name = Madilog
| title_orig = Madilog
| translator = Ted Sprague (into [[Social:Dutch language|Dutch]])
| image = 
| caption = Title page of the 1951 edition. {{sup|a}} 
| author = Tan Malaka{{sup|b}}
| country = Indonesia
| language = [[Social:Indonesian language|Indonesian]]
| subject = [[Philosophy:Philosophy|Philosophy]] (synthesis of [[Philosophy:Dialectical materialism|Dialectical materialism]] and Logics)
| published = 1943
| pages = 568 (first Indonesian edition)<ref>Madilog on ''Marxist Archive'' (in [[Social:Indonesian language|Indonesian]]) [https://www.marxists.org/indonesia/archive/malaka/Madilog/index.htm]</ref>
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| notes = {{sup|a}} First edition (1943) was the author's own publisher. {{sup|b}} First publication, Malaka used the pen name "Iljas Hussein".
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The '''''Madilog''''' by '''Iljas Hussein''' (the pen name of Tan Malaka), first published in 1943, official first edition 1951, is the magnum opus of Tan Malaka, the Indonesian national hero and is the most influential work in the history of modern Indonesian [[Philosophy:Philosophy|philosophy]]. ''Madilog'' is an [[Social:Indonesian language|Indonesian]] acronym that stands for ''Materialisme Dialektika Logika'' (literally, [[Philosophy:Materialism|Materialism]] Dialectics Logics). It is a synthesis of [[Philosophy:Marxism|Marxist]] [[Philosophy:Dialectical materialism|dialectical materialism]] and [[Biography:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegelian logic]]. Madilog was written in [[Place:Jakarta|Batavia]] where Malaka was hiding during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, disguised as a tailor.

If Malaka's essay "Naar de Republiek Indonesië" ("Towards a Republic of Indonesia") published in 1928, under the Dutch East Indies government, stands as a formulation of the national identity of Indonesia, then ''Madilog'' stands as an anticlimax of his ideas in the sense of building the Indonesian character in [[Philosophy:Modernism|modern society]]. Although ''Madilog'' is based on Marxism, it neither implements the Marxist view nor tries to establish a cultural pattern based on Marxism. ''Madilog'' is purely Malaka's [[Social:Nationalism|nationalist]] perspective by way of being influenced by Hegelian dialectics, [[Biography:Ludwig Feuerbach|Feuerbach]]'s materialism, [[Biography:Karl Marx|Marx's]] views of [[Philosophy:Philosophy of science|scientific reason]], and [[Philosophy:Logical positivism|logical positivism]]. The book is to be a new alternative to the usual Indonesian way of thinking and movement, of a people living on thousands of islands, with hundreds languages and cultures, with most believing in [[Philosophy:Mysticism|mystical logic]] (Indonesian: ''logika mistika''). In the first three chapters, the book emphasizes that Indonesian social classes differ from those of European society, thus unmodified Marxism cannot be applied due to ontological differences.

==History==
''Madilog'' was written by Tan Malaka in Rawajati, near a shoe factory in Kalibata, Pantjoran, [[Place:Jakarta|Batavia]]. Malaka stayed there between 1942 and 1943 as a tailor, while inspecting the condition of the city and ''kampungs'' in Batavia, from where he left over 20 years before. He spent 720 hours writing ''Madilog'', over 8 months from July 1942 to March 1943, spending approximately 3 hours a day on the book and ''Gabungan Aslia'' (Aslia Merged), which was written at the same time. Publication had to be postponed due to lack of money and being under strict supervision of the Japanese ''Keibōdan'' during [[Social:World War II|World War II]], from 1942 to 1945, when Indonesian independence was declared.

While writing ''Madilog'', Malaka served as Chairman of the Agency to Aid Defense ([[Social:Indonesian language|Indonesian old-spelling]]: ''Badan Pembantoe Pembelaan'', BPP) and as Chairman of the Agency to Help Worker Soldiers (Indonesian old-spelling: ''Badan Pembantoe Pradjoerit Pekerdja'', BP3), to help forced laborers (Romusha). He was eventually elected as representative for Bantam to the Young Generation Congress (Indonesian old-spelling: ''Congres Angkatan Moeda'', [[Social:Dutch language|Dutch]]: ''Congres van de Jonge Generatie''), but his swearing-in was cancelled. In Bantam, he met some Indonesian nationalist youth activists such as Sukarni, Chaerul Saleh, and Wikana, who would be known as members of ''Persatuan Perdjuangan'' in Surakarta in 1948.

''Madilog'' introduced the Madilog idea. It was first self-published in 1943, using the pen name Iljas Hussein, and 568 pages in length. In the post-independence era, ''Madilog'' was published by Widjaya Publisher, in 1951, in [[Place:Jakarta|Jakarta]]. ''Madilog'' was translated into Dutch by Ted Sprague and was published in 1962 in [[Place:The Hague|The Hague]].<ref>Poeze, Harry A. 1999. "Tan Malaka: Pergulatan Menuju Republik 1925-1945". Jakarta: Pustaka Utama Grafiti. p. xvii. (in [[Social:Indonesian language|Indonesian]]). {{ISBN|9794440523}}. [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6505105-tan-malaka]</ref>

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