The Intelligent Woman's Guide

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.