The Official Airline Pilot Scab Site
After God
had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful
substance left with which he made a scab.
A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a
combination backbone of jelly and glue.
Where
others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in
heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.
No man (or woman) has a right to scab so long as there is a pool of water to
drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with.
Judas was a
gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his master, he had character
enough to hang himself. A scab has not.
Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.
Judas sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver.
Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commision in the british
army.
The scab
sells his birthright, country, his wife, his children and his fellowmen for an
unfulfilled promise from his employer.
Esau was a traitor to himself; Judas was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold
was a traitor to his country.
A scab is a
traitor to his God, his country, his family and his class.
Author --- Jack London (1876-1916)
Jack London, the illegitimate son of a wandering astrologer, was born in San Francisco in 1876. He pretty clearly developed racist tendencies and is generally conceded to have been a Marxist.
He told one interviewer that he was still a socialist but: "I've done my part, Socialism has cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars. When the time comes I'm going to stay right on my ranch and let the revolution go to blazes."
On 21st November, 1916, Jack London died from a morphine overdose.
Well, golly. With a spokesperson like that.....
Here's To The Scabs!!
"This essay is more complex than one would suppose from the title. It was a speech later published in a collection of essays, The War of the Classes. In "The Scab" London discusses capitalist scabs, and the United States economy as a scab in relation to other nations."
Click here for a rather extensive discussion of London's socialist existence.