War of the Classes (Heathen Edition)

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jack London</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (born John Griffith Chaney; 1876-1916) was a prolific American short-story writer novelist journalist adventurer and social activist who pioneered accessible commercial fiction with two of his best-known works </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Call of the Wild</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (1903) and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>White Fang</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (1906) which established him as one of the first highly successful American authors. Claiming neither to be a theorist nor an intellectual socialist London's brand of socialism grew out of his life experience beginning with his scrappy working-class youth spent hopscotching through myriad jobs in San Francisco and Oakland to sailing the high seas joining the Alaskan Gold Rush and tramping across the United States - all before the age of 20. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: initial><em>War of the Classes</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the first of two essay collections espousing his views on socialism presents the origins of his hard-won socialist philosophy and when viewed through the lens of today eerily prophesies the burning fuse of capitalism advancing toward the powder keg our current international social strata.</span></p>