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The Iron Heel calls itself a novel, but it really isn’t. Basically, it’s a sad excuse for a novelist to expouse his political beliefs on a bully pulpit and call it a novel. There’s no real plot in the story. What there was, is page after page of London spouting his beliefs on socialism. It’s almost as if he had written these long essays on the virtues of socialism and after the fact, decided to make it into a novel. Even if I agreed with his position, which I don’t, it’s completely inappropriate
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A near-future dystopia, Jack London's The Iron Heel (1908) tells of the transition from capitalism to oligarchy (the Iron Heel) from the perspective of both a contemporary socialist revolutionary and a scholar from several hundred years in the future. This is accomplished by creating a frame narrative in which a future scholar has unearthed this manuscript that describes the struggle of the revolutionaries and then presents this manuscript as a historical document complete with introduction and
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