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.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture
https://lithub.com/how-jack-london-foresaw-the-anti-democratic-future-with-the-iron-heel/
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐: "๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐น" ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป -
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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๐ฏ ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐: โ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐นโ ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป -
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/