The Iron Heel
by Jack London
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Author: Jack LondonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-30
ISBN: 1595690379
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Mondial
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Book Review: The Pre-Orwellian Jack London
Summary: 5 Stars
The Iron Heel is interesting as an example of a "dystopian" novel which anticipates and influenced George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Jack London's (1876-1916) socialist politics are explicitly on display here. Its description of the capitalist class forming an organised, totalitarian, violent oligarchy to crush the working-class forewarned in some detail the Fascist dictatorships of Europe. Given it was written in 1908, this prediction was somewhat uncanny, as Trotsky noted while commenting on the book in the 30s.
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