The Intelligent Woman's Guide: To Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism - Couverture rigide

Shaw, Bernard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1847492436 ISBN 13 : 9781847492432

Editeur : Alma Classics, 2012

Synopsis

The Intelligent Woman's Guide Published in 1928 when Shaw was seventy-two, this book draws on decades of political activity and remains one of his brilliant exercises in propaganda. It contains a foreword by Polly Toynbee. Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, hailed the work as the world's most important book since the Bible Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Published in 1928 when Shaw was seventy-two, this book draws on decades of political activity and remains one of his brilliant exercises in propaganda. It contains a foreword by Polly Toynbee. Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, hailed the work as the world's most important book since the Bible. As a Fabian and lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of our lives. Family affections and relations between the sexes were perverted by it. From Parliament to eduction our institutions were 'corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest'. Idealism, integrity and piecemeal attempts at political reform were all futile in the face of the gross injustice built into our economic system. And because a capitalist economy could never function smoothly, private property was not merely a form of robbery, but robbery with violence.

Revue de presse :

'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 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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Alma Classics
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1847492436
• ISBN 13: 9781847492432
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480