THE IRON HEEL (10)
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“And when they take me out of Congress, and put me against a wall, and blow my brains out — what then?”
Read This PostAuthor: Jack London
Jack London, adventurer and author of The Call of the Wild, wrote several works of Radium-Age science fiction, including The Iron Heel (1908) and The Star Rover (1914). The Scarlet Plague (serialized 1912; published in book form 1915) is set in London's hometown of San Francisco. In May 2012, HiLoBooks published The Scarlet Plague in a beautiful new edition.
THE IRON HEEL (9)
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“We will put back industry to its pre-trust stage. We will break the machines.”
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THE IRON HEEL (8)
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“They see clearly as far as they see, but they see only to the ends of their noses.”
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THE IRON HEEL (7)
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“The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class.”
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THE IRON HEEL (6)
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“An unseen and fearful revolution is taking place in the fibre and structure of society.”
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THE IRON HEEL (5)
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“When it comes to sociology — my trade — you are down in the dirt at my feet.”
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THE IRON HEEL (4)
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“They were convinced that they were the saviours of society, and that it was they who made happiness for the many.”
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THE IRON HEEL (3)
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“It’s not me duty, but me bread an’ butter an’ the life of me children to stand by the mills.”
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THE IRON HEEL (2)
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“We do not make the class struggle. We merely explain it, as Newton explained gravitation.”
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THE IRON HEEL (1)
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“’The fact, man, the irrefragable fact!’ he would proclaim triumphantly.”
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THE IRON HEEL (FOREWORD)
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“Capitalism, rotten-ripe, sent forth that monstrous offshoot, the Oligarchy.”
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