Saw this morning a documentary about Jack London on my hard disc of the television provider.
Jack London. une aventure américaine
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6942200/
https://vimeo.com/123641678
https://www.biography.com/people/jack-london-9385499
http://www.parks.sonoma.net/JLStory.html


But after watching I remained with an unsatisfactory feeling about what in the film was explained about Jack London's "world views". He had read Charles Darwin when he was in Klondike, he was a Socialist due to what he had seen during his first work. I have the impression that he had all kind of contradictory thoughts, which was perhaps an inner struggle within himself? or perhaps he didn't bothered about it? and just lived his vitalist life? I don't see him as an example for me, as he seems to contemplate many times conflicting philosphies.

I was glad to find some more about these different  tendencies many times in my opinion conflicting within the person of Jack London, as for instance the intervention policy of Ted Roosevelt in Mexico defending as a Socialist? And even his Socialist system...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/490019?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
http://london.sonoma.edu/students/philosophy.html


Tomororw more about the contradictions...

Kind regards from Paul.

Just to say that I spent yesterday the whole evening with research about the great depression (that changed in "long depression") after the "great depression" of the Thirties...
It is perhaps as boring a subject for this small forum as the Jack London philosophy...
As Jack London lived during the US becoming "great" (some people have nostalgy about that greatness) I heard a lot about a depression of the end of the century and in the US and in Europe. And now I wanted once and for all to know more about it.
And to my surprise it seems to have started in Vienna...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression

Also as I said I didn't see how Jack London could in the same life be for people who were the fundaments of the Nazi doctrine as a Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), a David Starr Jordan (1851-1938), a Ernst Haeckel (1843-1919) and a Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), although to be honest it was more by the manipulations of Friedrich's sister that Nietzsche was painted as sustaining the Nazi ideology
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7018535/Criminal-manipulation-of-Nietzsche-by-sister-to-make-him-look-anti-Semitic.html


And at the same time be for International Socialism as he has adhered to such an international American organism.
The rest of the evening again! in all the differentiations of Socialism and the breaking away of the Communists in the Second Internationale...And I didn't know that there was now an international labour organisation from the UN...and they have representants from the states, the employers and the workers, the Dutch Poldermodel, which is in my opinion the best approach to come to compromises during conflicts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Labour_Organization

Kind regards from Paul.

I don't know much about the life of Jack London, Paul.  I remember once listening to a (I believe slightly abridged) version of his novel White Fang on "Book at Bedtime" or some similar radio programme.  I didn't hear the whole reading though.