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The Iron Heel
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The Iron Heel describes the fall of the United States
to a cruel fascist dictatorship. Fearful of the
popularity of socialism, the plutocrats of the Iron
Heel conspire to eliminate democracy and, with their
secret police and military, terrorize the citizenry.
They instigate a German attack on Hawaii on Dec. 4,
1912; as socialist revolutions topple capitalist
governments around the world, the Iron Heel has 52
socialist members of the U.S. Congress imprisoned for
treason. Elements of London's vision of fascism, civil
war, and governmental oppression proved to be
prophetic in the first half of the 20th century and
the first part of the 21th as well.
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