Quotation from: War of the Classes

Written by: Jack London

When I was a youngster I was looked upon as a weird sort of
creature, because, forsooth, I was a socialist. Reporters from
local papers interviewed me, and the interviews, when published,
were pathological studies of a strange and abnormal specimen of man.
At that time (nine or ten years ago), because I made a stand in my
native town for municipal ownership of public utilities, I was
branded a "red-shirt," a "dynamiter," and an "anarchist"; and really
decent fellows, who liked me very well, drew the line at my
appearing in public with their sisters.