How #JackLondon Foresaw the #AntiDemocratic #Future With #TheIronHeel.

#KenMcGoogan on the #Dangers of #Oligarchic #Totalitarian #Rule in #Fiction and in #RealLife

In one of the most prescient dystopian works ever written, the #narrator describes how the #party in #government, having lost an #election, simply declined to leave office.

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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗲𝗹" 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 -

Despite its preachiness and flaws as a novel, London's book is a political manifesto on class conflict, exposing some of the less understood dynamics of privilege and power.

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𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗲𝗹” 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 -

As much diatribe as political novel, London's dystopia in America story still rings true.

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The Iron Heel is a political novel in the form of science fiction[1] by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.

Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel

#InternetArchive
Read
https://archive.org/details/cu31924002168817
Audio
https://archive.org/details/iron_heel_1007_librivox

librivox
https://librivox.org/the-iron-heel-by-jack-london/
Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1164
Review
https://www.socialistalternative.org/2017/01/06/review-the-iron-heel-jack-londons-classic/

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