Description: To Mr. Robert Nelson, a Good Comrade, with best wishes, Jack London. Piedmont, Calif, April 17, 1902. Original Wolf bookplate. Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. a few small marks on front and rear boards. pages are clean, binding is tight. Jack London became an active socialist in the 1890s. Already notorious before the age of 20, he had written an article "What Socialism is" for the San Francisco Examiner at the end of 1895. In 1896, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a story about the "Boy Socialist." In 1896 he joined the Socialist Labor Party (SLP), led by Daniel De Leon, and later that year had a letter published in the Oakland Times urging readers to study Marx's "Capital." London would leave the SLP and join the breakaway socialists around Eugene Debs, running as the Social Democratic Party candidate for mayor of Oakland in 1901 and as the Socialist Party candidate for the same post in 1905. During the early years of the twentieth century, he wrote and spoke up for the burgeoning socialist movement, spreading the message far and wide and leaving a literary legacy around which organizers could recruit, including in his essays and stories "The People of the Abyss," "War on the Classes," "The Scab," "Something Rotten in Idaho," and the novel "The Iron Heel.".
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