"He wrote an essay called "What Life Means to Me" which takes its place with Kropotkin's "Appeal to the Young" and Oscar Wilde's "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," and its closing sentence rings with his faith in the rise of the common man. "The stairway of time is ever echoing with the wooden shoe going up, the polished boot descending.""
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Anna Strunsky, "Memoirs of Jack London" in The Masses (July 1917)
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Jack London
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 β November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.
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