The story is all about how an Oligarchy takes over America and uses unequal pay structure to turn the poor against each other when they come close to building solidarity with one another. Sounding familiar at all maybe?
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It will probably feel more relevant now because, unlike Huxley or Orwell, London was responding to the American political atmosphere in the Gilded Age. America's been moving back towards the Gilded Age model since Eisenhower and has now almost reached something like it again.
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Most interesting about the novel, perhaps, is the framing device: it's presented as a history from a future utopian socialist society. You know from the beginning that your heroes are destined to lose the battle. However, with enough time and fight their cause will win the world.
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It's pretty short. A slim enough volume for a laborer. Penguin Classics our out a nice annotated edition at some point. You might also find it as an audiobook (which exposes precisely no one to potential infection), but I haven't looked.
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Agreed. 50 years since I read it - and I still recall how the bank MADE UP a mortgage on the dissident professor's house, declared it in default, and had him EVICTED. Suddenly homeless. (Came to mind during the 2008 banking/housing crisis - when that was actually HAPPENING.)
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Oh, *this* I need.
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Unfortunately the people who really need to know the things this book has to teach probably wouldn't seek it out, but it certainly still has lessons to learn and a good story to tell.
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