(P/B) THE IRON HEEL

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The Iron Heel appeared in 1908. By 1947, Philip Foner was calling it "probably the most amazingly prophetic work of the twentieth century." To us, looking backward from the closing decades of the century, this claim does not seem extravagant. For with every passing year, The Iron Heel now sems more timely, more vital.
When Jack London wrote this novel in 1906, the Russian revolution of 1905 was being crushed by the Czar's army, secret police, and terrorist gangs. Few people anticipated that out of this terrible defeat would emerge the triumphant Russian revolution of 1917. From our vantage point in time, we can see that these were the formative events of our century. For we live in the epoch of global revolution and counter-revolution, an age of fierce protracted combat to determine the future of the human race. This is the apocalyptic battle imagined in The Iron Heel, which foresees the struggle between the impoverished masses who do most of the world's work and the privileged minorities who live off the profits raging without resolution for three hundred years. [...] (From the publisher)