McDevitt), When Coxey’s “Army” Marcht on Washington 1894 (San Francisco: McDevitt’s, 1944), pp. McMurry, Coxey’s Army: A Study of the Industrial Army Movement of 1894 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1929), pp. The date for initial publication of this essay is given here as 1903 in the March issue of The Comrade.ĭonald L. Abbott (New York: Vanguard Press, 1926), p. Jack London, “How I Became a Socialist,” Essays of Revolt, ed. 133Įarle Labor, Jack London (New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1975), pp. Charles Child Walcutt (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974), p. 89–92Ĭharles Child Walcutt, “Jack London” in Seven Novelists in the American Naturalist Tradition, ed. 118–130Ĭharles Child Walcutt, American Literary Naturalism, A Divided Stream (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1956), pp. Foner, Jack London American Rebel (New York: The Citadel Press, 1947), pp.
In this archetype of primal individual endeavor with its related rewards and responsibilities London placed his hopes for the progress of all humanity. Jack London gave the progressive era’s benevolent individualism his own rugged formulation. London’s essays, novels and adventure stories describe the ability of some individuals to survive amid extraordinary hardship, whether in the northern wastelands, on the roads and rails of 19th century tramping, or along the Oakland waterfront. Non-socialist interpretations have rarely perceived the ideas of communism as the important catalysts they were for London’s intellectual and literary achievement, and have therefore frequently distorted his concept of the Nietzschean. Although Marx and Engels did exert an important influence on London throughout his life the particular stamp given socialist thought by London’s contemporaries was more significant for the development of his own philosophical viewpoint. Efforts to analyze his writing within the scope of Marxian dialectic or Nietzschean ruthlessness do little to illuminate London’s intellectual roots. Socialist assessments of Jack London’s life and work have thus far disregarded his complexity.
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