The Radical Jack London - Jonah Raskin

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/29/Jonah_Raskin_The_Radical_Jack_London

Jonah Raskin, editor of "The Radical Jack London," discusses the legendary author's controversial, and often contradictory, political beliefs.

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Jonah Raskin talks about The Radical Jack London. He lays out the social, economic, and political context for London's writings and shows him to be America’s leading revolutionary writer at the turn of the twentieth century.

Raskin is the author of American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and The Making of the Beat Generation - Book Passage

Jonah Raskin is the author of The Radical Jack London. He left an East Coast university teaching position to participate in the 1970s radical counterculture as a free-lance journalist, returned to the academy in California in the 1980s to write probing studies of Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg, and reviews of northern California writers whom he styled as "natives, newcomers, exiles and fugitives."

Beginning as a lecturer in English at Sonoma State University in 1981, he moved to chair of the Communications Studies Department from 1988 to 2007, while serving as a book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.

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[crud4]

And in Bakunins time antisemitism was the norm. You can take the good and leave the bad- of course London was no John Brown but I don't think anyone is implying such?

[quantumofhate]

IS RACESIME RONG AFTER ALL WE ARE ALL DIFERENT DO WE ALL HAF TO BE THE SAME.DO I HAF TO FEIL GUILTY ABOUT HAVING A WHITE SKIN AND BEING A MAIL.BUT I DON'T CARE BECAUSE I LIKE MY SELF AND MY RACE.

[Buddy212002]

@mellowtribe Tell Willie Horton that, clown.

[witchesbrewable]

Not hard to tell the speaker is a jew.  Hook nose, eyes close together, even a New York accent. They're known for their lies also.

[Dreamsex101]

And with all that being said.... He is one of the most awesome authors I have ever read. Let's remember him simply for being a writer.

[mellowtribe]

The left was truly racist then. Today the left or Lomosine liberals are not as vocal with their racism. They simply pimp minorities for political gain.

[CNTloyalist]

what he's saying is true, get over it.

[trajan75]

Is this guy nuts? There is no Jack London "mafia". London was a man of contradictions. He was an admirer of both Marx and London, but he was not a systematic thinker. His racism is more emotional than analytic. He was a risk taker and when his risk paid off he spent like the proverbial drunken sailor that he was. But he wrote "The Call of the Wild" and he'll always be remembered for that. He was warm hearted and I believe that had he lived he would have put his racism behind him.