Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:54:02 -0400
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Iron Heel


Luciano Dondero wrote:

> I wonder why nobody has mentioned Jack London's "The Iron Heel".
> This was written in 1905, long before fascism and Stalinism had raised their
> ugly heads.

Well, to weave two recent threads into a proto-fabric, The Iron Heel is
also a favorite of the "populist" right in the US, which liberals refer to
by the reductionist shorthand "militias." What does that mean, if anything?

Doug

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