How Jack London became a socialist.
"...To return to my conversion. I think it is apparent that my rampant individualism was pretty effectively hammered out of me, and something else as effectively hammered in. But, just as I had been an individualist without knowing it, I was now a Socialist without knowing it, withal, an unscientific one. I had been reborn, but not renamed, and I was running around to find out what manner of thing I was..."
Question: Is he trading in individualism (in which he seems to further correlate being an individualist to working for a capitalist) for submission to the collective and ultimately the state?
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