About this book
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 "e;corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest"e; - 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 "e;the world's most important book since the Bible"e;) - and first published in 1928, The Intelligent Woman's Guide draws on Shaw's decades of activism and remains a brilliant, thought-provoking classic of political propaganda.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism
- 1. A Closed Question Opens
- 2. Dividing up
- 3. How Much for Each?
- 4. No Wealth without Work
- 5. Communism
- 6. Limits to Communism
- 7. Seven Ways Proposed
- 8. To Each What She Produces
- 9. To Each What She Deserves
- 10. To Each What She Can Grab
- 11. Oligarchy
- 12. Distribution by Class
- 13. Laissez-faire
- 14. How Much Is Enough?
- 15. What We Should Buy First
- 16. Eugenics
- 17. The Courts of Law
- 18. The Idle Rich
- 19. Church, School and Press
- 20. Why We Put up with It
- 21. Positive Reasons for Equality
- 22. Merit and Money
- 23. Incentive
- 24. The Tyranny of Nature
- 25. The Population Question
- 26. The Diagnostic of Socialism
- 27. Personal Righteousness
- 28. Capitalism
- 29. Your Shopping
- 30. Your Taxes
- 31. Your Rates
- 32. Your Rent
- 33. Capital
- 34. Investment and Enterprise
- 35. Limitations of Capitalism
- 36. The Industrial Revolution
- 37. Sending Capital out of the Country
- 38. Doles, Depopulation and Parasitic Paradises
- 39. Foreign Trade and the Flag
- 40. Empires in Collision
- 41. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
- 42. How Wealth Accumulates and Men Decay
- 43. Disablement Above and Below
- 44. The Middle Station in Life
- 45. Decline of the Employer
- 46. The Proletariat
- 47. The Labour Market and the Factory Acts
- 48. Women in the Labour Market
- 49. Trade Union Capitalism
- 50. Divide and Govern
- 51. Domestic Capital
- 52. The Money Market
- 53. Speculation
- 54. Banking
- 55. Money
- 56. Nationalization of Banking
- 57. Compensation for Nationalization
- 58. Preliminaries to Nationalization
- 59. Confiscation without Compensation
- 60. Revolt of the Parasitic Proletariat
- 61. Safety Valves
- 62. Why Confiscation Has Succeeded Hitherto
- 63. How the War Was Paid for
- 64. National Debt Redemption Levies
- 65. The Constructive Problem Solved
- 66. Sham Socialism
- 67. Capitalism in Perpetual Motion
- 68. The Runaway Car of Capitalism
- 69. The Natural Limit to Liberty
- 70. Rent of Ability
- 71. Party Politics
- 72. The Party System
- 73. Divisions within the Labour Party
- 74. Religious Dissensions
- 75. Revolutions
- 76. Change Must Be Parliamentary
- 77. Subsidized Private Enterprise
- 78. How Long Will It Take?
- 79. Socialism and Liberty
- 80. Socialism and Marriage
- 81. Socialism and Children
- 82. Socialism and the Churches
- 83. Current Confusions
- 84. Sovietism
- 85. Fascism
- 86. Peroration
- Instead of a Bibliography
- Note on the Text
