![]() The Jungle was first published in the Socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason it was then read by millions as a book, and was translated into seventeen languages. Spoke of socialism, of how beautiful life might be if people cooperatively owned and worked and But also, through the story of an immigrant laborer, Jurgis Rudkus, it Plants of Chicago to the shocked attention of the whole country, and stimulated demand for laws Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, published in 1906, brought the conditions in the meatpacking Whose books were read by millions: Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris. System harshly-not obscure pamphleteers, but among the most famous of American literary figures, ![]() There were writers of the early twentieth century who spoke for socialism or criticized the capitalist Soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies." Other Western countries go about the world and wrote in the New York Herald as the centuryīegan: "I bring you the stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, andĭishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chou, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Philippines, with her By 1900, at sixty-five, he was a world-Īcclaimed writer of funny-serious-American-to-the-bone stories. Mark Twain was neither an anarchist nor a radical. that the lives,īlood, and money of the American people were used to protect the interests of the American ![]() Price of commodities and rent-that is, when we sobered up from our patriotic spree-it suddenlyĭawned on us that the cause of the Spanish-American war was the price of sugar. Was over, the dead buried, and the cost of the war came back to the people in an increase in the How our hearts burned with indignation against the atrocious Spaniards!. Imprisonment on Blackwell's Island, spoke at a meeting some years after the Spanish-American Haymarket executions, the Homestead strike, the long prison term of her lover and comrade,Īlexander Berkman, the depression of the 1890s, the strike struggles of New York, her own The anarchist and feminist, whose political consciousness was shaped by factory work, the As the twentieth century opened, that anger reemerged. War and jingoism might postpone, but could not fully suppress, the class anger that came from the
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