The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism, and Fascism As a lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of human life, perverting family affections and the relations between the sexes. According to him, all British institutions were corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest - and idealism, integrity and any piecemeal attempts at political reform were futile in the face of the gross injustice built into the Empire's economic system. Begun in 1924 - the year of the British Labour Party's first period of office under Ramsay MacDonald (who hailed it as the world's most important book since the Bible ) - and first published in 1928, The Intelligent Woman's Guide draws on Shaw's decades of activism and remains a brilliant, thoughtprovoking classic of political propaganda.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) a Nobel Prizewinning Irish playwright and critic, as well as an ardent socialist and tireless activist for the working class.
Title: The Intelligent Woman's Guide: To Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism (Alma Classics)
Author: Foreword by Polly Toynbee, Bernard Shaw
ISBN: 9781847493330
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Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2014-05-15
Number of Pages: 512
Weight: 0.3811 kg
The playwright's passionate and indignant guide for women, which tells how social injustice destroys lives, suddenly looks remarkably fresh. -- Polly Toynbee * The Guardian * He did his best in redressing the fateful unbalance between truth and reality, in lifting mankind to a higher rung of social maturity. He often pointed a scornful finger at human frailty, but his jests were never at the expense of humanity. -- Thomas Mann He was a Tolstoy with jokes, a modern Dr Johnson, a universal genius who on his own modest reckoning put even Shakespeare in the shade. * The Independent *