In the volumes, Poeze demonstrates his scrupulous historical research by elaborating TM's trajectory, principles, and ideology based on his magnum opus "Madilog" (Materialism, Dialectic and Logic) and some other writings as well as his disputes with Soekarno, Hatta and Sjahrir deal with the character of liberated nation, 100% liberation against diplomacy to gain national freedom, and to set up education as ideological program preparing critical youth generations for being acquainted to critical terms such as, inter alia, "revolution", "proletarian", "social justice" etc. Interestingly his vision about such educational theorem had been written far years ago before Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" (around 1922).
Poeze had demonstrated that historical study should be equipped by field research aside from archives. Personal and/or collective memory were used as oral resources to collect information which subsequently support the researcher to understand variables of the conundrum. In certain extent it prompts what Munslow called "deconstructing history". Poeze's work on Tan Malaka, who was executed by the Indonesia military (date and place were concealed), has inspired me to think about some figures whose same fate e.g. Chris Robert Steven Soumokil.
