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yossikhe 's review for:
Walden and Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
The “Civil Disobedience” essay at the end of the book is great. It’s easy to figure out why it inspired figures like Gandhi or Martín Luther King. As for Walden, I found it a little presumptuous, specially considering most of the conditions Thoureau wrote about are invented (as said in the prologue). Moreover, being poor is different than pretending you’re poor. The second, as in Thoureau’s case, may lead to a flawed analysis about poverty. With that being said, I think Walden has some valuable stuff: his perspectives on work exploitation are interesting, and sadly still apply to our society.