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Title: War of the Classes

Author: Jack London

Release Date: May 6, 2007 [eBook #1187]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1912 Macmillan edition by David Price, email
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WAR OF THE CLASSES

BY
JACK LONDON
AUTHOR OF "THE SEA-WOLF," "CALL OF THE WILD," ETC.

THE REGENT PRESS
NEW YORK

Copyright, 1905,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1905. Reprinted June,
October, November, 1905; January, 1906; May, 1907; April, 1908; March,
19010; April, 1912.

Printed and Bound by
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York

Contents:

Preface
The Class Struggle
The Tramp
The Scab
The Question of the Maximum
A Review
Wanted: A New Land of Development
How I Became a Socialist

PREFACE

When I was a youngster I was looked upon as a weird sort of creature,
because, forsooth, I was a socialist. Reporters from local papers
interviewed me, and the interviews, when published, were pathological
studies of a strange and abnormal specimen of man. At that time (nine or
ten years ago), because I made a stand in my native town for municipal
ownership of public utilities, I was branded a "red-shirt," a
"dynamiter," and an "anarchist"; and really decent fellows, who liked me
very well, drew the line at my appearing in public with their sisters.

But the times changed. There came a day when I heard, in my native town,
a Republican mayor publicly proclaim that "municipal ownership was a
fixed American policy." And in that day I found myself picking up in the
world. No longer did the pathologist study me, while the really decent
fellows did not mind in the least the propinquity of myself and their
sisters