Jack London (was Re:Suicide Bombers)

[Bradley Mayer]

As a virtual resident of the official Jack London
Square here in Oakland, CA, I feel a special duty to
respond, with respect to the politics.  Jack London
was a raving anti-Chinese and anti-Asian racist,
reflecting the same of the Bay Area labor movement of
that time.  Given the rather amorphous,
petit-bourgeois character of Londons' socialism and
his eventual departure from the US Socialist Party,
London would have made an ideal recruit to Mussolini's
Fascist Party in the early 1920's, had he been
Italian.

But he wasn't, so we'll never really know, will we?  
-Brad Mayer

Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 11:05:18 -0700
From: joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com>
Subject: Re:Suicide Bombers

At 06:16 AM 05/09/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>  Joanna, I've read Jack London's, "Iron Heel, "but
have read left lit 
> critters
>that lambaste him as a racist, masculinist blood and
soil, sub-"Nietzschean".
>Like what Leo Lowenthal said about Knut Hamsun.
>Michael Pugliese

Jack London was a very mixed bag. Racist, certainly.

I referred to "The Iron Heel" because he has a
paragraph in there about the 
future of humanity consisting of a boot stamping on a
human head 
....forever...or words to that effect. It seems to
describe the situation 
in Palestine. I wasn't reaching for anything deeper or
truer than that.

Joanna

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