The Iron Heel - Classic Dystopian Novel by Jack London | Perfect for Book Clubs, Literature Lovers & Political Fiction Readers

I have read some of Jack London's adventure stories, such as "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild", but "The Iron Heel" is speculative fiction and altogether a different sort of animal - albeit one can still clearly hear his "voice" throughout. Here again, he writes on a subject and in a style much like that seen later in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath". There are distinct "bad guys" - the captalists - and "good guys" - the laborers, engaged in an existential struggle, and never the twain meet.Written in 1908, it is undestandable that London - not having the century of hindsight we posess - might be taken in by the apparent mathematical simplicity of Marxian economic theory. We know now that if and when Everhard's side won it would be only a matter of time before a new set of bad guys would appear, much like the *nomenklatura* and the *apparatchik*.Nonetheless, it was a good read, and I recommend it.