 | Drummond (54)
02/22/2006 | Actually a bit of a dogmatic socialist, although his politics were laced subtlely in most of his work with the exception of The Iron Heel, a novel about a military coup in America. What's fascinating about the novel is the uncanny similarities between the events of the novel and the events of the Chilean coup against Allende in the early 70s.
He was also something of a racist however. He covered the Russia/Japan naval war as a journalist, and freaked out that a non-white country navy was making mincemeat of the Russians. Some white supremacists claim that White Fang is an allegory about the struggle of the white man in a world of inferiors. This is of course a stretch, and I think London was basically a working class person with all the same propensities for racism as the people around him at the time. He wasn't raised with the Cosby show.
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