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THE IRON HEEL BY JACK LONDON
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2023 3:44 pm
by Victor Arminius
I just started reading The Iron Heel. It is said that was the book that inspired WLP to write the Turner Dairies. From page one you can see the similarities. A 700-hundred-year-old notebook is found written by minor player in the revolution that overthrew the "Oligarchy." The name of the obscure revolutionary was Avis Everhard who, unlike Earl Turner, is female. But the person who finds the notebook and makes it into a book that is all the rage is Anthony Meredith whereas in the case of The Turner Diaries is Andrew Macdonald.
Re: THE IRON HEEL BY JACK LONDON
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 10:16 am
by Jim Mathias
Thoughts of societal level revolution start here, with the thought contained in a story. It's from here we act, to bring about a new revolutionary society.
Re: THE IRON HEEL BY JACK LONDON
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 11:53 pm
by Will Williams
Victor, Jack London aside, you should read this about what led Dr. Pierce to write The Turner Diaries: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=4105
Then that prompted Douglas Mercer to write more, here: https://nationalvanguard.org/2020/07/th ... n-letters/
Re: THE IRON HEEL BY JACK LONDON
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2023 11:44 pm
by Victor Arminius
I finally finished The Iron Heel. Not to take anything away from Jack London but I thought The Turners Dairies were much more exciting. The Iron Heel is verbose with arguments for socialism and instead of putting us right in the action as the Turner Diaries does The Iron Heel explains through a second person what happened. Socialists get elected in massive numbers. The Oligarchy promptly declare their election null and void and they are arrested and sent to prison. A war between the Oligarchy and the Socialism ensures with the "Chicago Commune" being the largest of the Communist enclaves. In the end the Oligarchy win but the remnants of Socialism know that times is on their side because of Dialectical Materialism. (Capitalism replaced feudalism, in time Socialism will replace Capitalism.) It is inevitable and is a historical process that can neither be reversed or slowed down. (According to Marxist theory) Of course, as WLP pointed out London was more Nationalistic socialism than he was Marxist Socialist.