The Intelligent Woman's Guide by Bernard Shaw Brentano's 1928 First printing
Title: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
Author: Bernard Shaw
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brentano's 1928
Edition: First printing
Size: 6.5 X 9.65 X 1.5 * 495 pages
Synopsis: Shaw's socialist analysis of the modern economy grew out of a reply to his sister-in-law Mary Stewart Cholmondeley, who had asked for a summary of his ideas on socialism for her study circle. The book offers his fullest indictment of capitalism as the source of domestic injustice and international enmity, and argues an egalitarian society is the necessary future.
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.
Overall Condition: Good + It has very minimal wear to the decorative cover and no holes or tears. The dust jacket, if there was one, is not included. The binding has minimal wear. The pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. There are no missing pages; see images.
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