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January 12, 2021 4 comments

Remembering Jack London
(January 12, 1876–November 22, 1916)

Greg Johnson

Phil Eiger Newmann, Jack London, 2021

467 words

Spanish version here

Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco on January 12, 1876. An adventurer and Jack of all trades in his youth, London achieved fame and fortune as a fiction writer and journalist. But he never forgot his working-class roots and remained a life-long advocate of workers’ rights, unionism, and revolutionary socialism. (See his essay “What Life Means to Me.”)

But Jack London was no ordinary Leftist, for he was acutely racially conscious (see, for example, “The Yellow Peril“) and had such a marked Nietzschean/Social Darwinist ethical sensibility that Ragnar Redbeard’s infamous Might is Right or The Survival of the Fittest was widely, though mistakenly, attributed to him. Thus London is also a favorite writer of New Rightists and White Nationalists, particularly West Coast White Nationalists and those who hope for the re-emergence of a racially conscious Left.

Jack London, age 9, with his dog Rollo

London’s best-known books are Call of the Wild and White Fang, drawing upon his experiences in the Klondike Gold Rush; The Sea-Wolf, a psychological thriller and portrait of a brutal sea captain; and The Iron Heel, a dystopian novel about oligarchy and revolutionary socialism which became one of the literary inspirations of William Pierce’s The Turner Diaries.

The Library of America has published two handsome hardcover volumes of London’s principal works: Novels and Stories: Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, Klondike and Other Stories and Novels and Social Writings: The People of the Abyss, The Road, The Iron Heel, Martin Eden, John Barleycorn. The Portable Jack London is a well-chosen single-volume paperback selection of his writings. James L. Haley’s recent biography Wolf: The Lives of Jack London is a true tale as exciting as London’s best fiction. The best online resource on Jack London is The World of Jack London, which contains virtually all of his writings plus invaluable secondary literature.

In 1905, Jack London bought a ranch in Sonoma County where he experimented with ecologically sustainable farming and ranching techniques. In 1916, Jack London died of kidney failure. He was only 40 years old. He left two daughters, plus 20 novels, 10 collections of short stories, three plays, three collections of essays, two autobiographical memoirs, and countless other works.

Counter-Currents has published the following works by Jack London:

  • “Capitalism, Socialism, and Dysgenics”
  • “How I Became a Socialist”
  • “What Life Means to Me”
  • “The Yellow Peril” (German translation here)

See also the following works about Jack London:

  • Andrew Hamilton, “Jack London’s ‘To Build a Fire’“
  • Instauration, “Jack London”
  • Dietrich Wolf, “The Soul of Jack London,” Part One, Two, Three, and Four

The following articles mention Jack London:

  • Jonathan Bowden, “Robert E. Howard & the Heroic”
  • Julius Evola, “The Overcoming of the Superman”
  • Greg Johnson, “West-Coast White Nationalism” (French translation here, Slovak translation here)
  • Spencer J. Quinn, “On Liberals & the White Ethnostate”

 

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4 comments

  1. Stanley says:
    January 12, 2021 at 8:08 am

    Jim Jeffries must now emerge from his Alfalfa farm and wipe that golden smile from Jack Johnson’s face. The white man must be rescued.
    – Jack London

  2. Grey Wolf says:
    January 13, 2021 at 12:49 am

    Anyway to be a Socialist does not necessarily mean to be Left. So as to be a National Socialist does not mean to be Hitleryt only. Many politicians were National Socialists and did not have anything common with Hitler. Piilsudski in Poland, Atatürk in Türkiye, Jewish foundators of Israel State in 1947-49, General Peron in Argentina, Nasser in Egypt and many many others. The problem is that the people react on the words “National Socialism” like the Prof. Pavlov´s dog, with conditioned reflexes. They simply “know” that the National Socialism is something very bad. Why bad, what it is exactly – they do not know and do not want to know.

    But on the 12th of January I would remember not Jack London (a good writer, surely), but Türkish poet, writer and political fighter Nihal Atsiz (1905-1975). I think, as POLITICAL figure he was much more significant for his nation (and for all other Türkic nations), as J.L. for Americans.

  3. R-ang says:
    January 13, 2021 at 2:19 am

    “Greg Johnson, “West-Coast White Nationalism” (French translation here, Czech translation here)”
    The “Czech” translation isn’t Czech, it’s Slovak.

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      January 13, 2021 at 2:26 am

      Thanks, fixed.

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