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A collection of critical writings on politics from the Nobel Prize winning playwright behind Saint Joan and Man and Superman.
TheCritical Shaw: On Politics is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaws opinions on a wide range of political movements, ideologies, and events that helped shape the international landscape of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With unwavering conviction, and in many cases openly courting controversy and calumny, Shaw spoke his mind on the big -isms of his time: Socialism, Capitalism, Communism, and Fascism. He championed Socialism in its formative years, he condemned all combatants in the First World War, he berated Americas embrace of Capitalism, he praised Russias choice of Communism, he lauded Stalin, he rejected the notion that Hitler was responsible for the Second World War, and he scorned Democracy. Persistently provocative, sometimes outrageous, always the political iconoclast, Shaws political convictionsas soapbox orator or world-famous punditchallenge us to face the political issues and dilemmas of our own time with similar rigor and integrity.
The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaws voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. The volumes are edited by leading Shaw scholars, and all include an introduction, a chronology of Shaws life and works, annotated texts, and a bibliography. The series editor is L.W. Conolly, literary adviser to the Shaw Estate and former president of the International Shaw Society.
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The Critical Shaw
on Politics
edited by L.W. Conolly
The Critical Shaw: On Politics
Editorial material 2016 by L.W. Conolly
A Manifesto. Fabian Tracts, no. 2. 1884 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
The Manifesto of the Fabian Parliamentary League 1887 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from The Transition to Social Democracy 1888 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from What Socialism Is, Fabian Tract no. 13. 1890 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from The Impossibilities of Anarchism 1891 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from the Fabian Election Manifesto 1892 1892 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from What Socialism Will be Like 1896 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from The Illusions of Socialism 1896 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from The Revolutionists Handbook and Pocket Companion 1903 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from Why All Women are Peculiarly Fitted to be Good Voters. 1907 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
The Crime of Poverty 1912 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from Common Sense About the War 1914 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from Cataclysm 1917 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from How to Settle the Irish Question 1917 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Monarchy v. Republicanism: An Unpublished Letter to The Times, 22 April 1917 1917 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from Peace Conference Hints 1919 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from The Dictatorship of the Proletariat 1921 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from The Intelligent Womans Guide to Socialism and Capitalism 1928 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from the Preface to The Apple Cart 1930 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Fascism 1931 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
The Only Hope of the World, 1931 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Look, You Boob! A Little Talk on America 1931 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home 1933 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Halt, Hitler! 1933 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from the Preface to On the Rocks 1933 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from the Preface to The Millionairess 1935 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from The Unavoidable Subject 1940 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from Everybodys Political Whats What? 1944 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from the Preface to Geneva 1945 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
Excerpt from Sixty Years of Fabianism 1947 by the Estate of Bernard Shaw
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Electronic edition published 2016 by RosettaBooks
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ISBN (EPUB): 9780795346903
ISBN (Kindle): 9780795347665
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I am most grateful to RosettaBooks for their expert support during the preparation of this book, particularly Jonathan Ward, Hannah Bennett, and Jay McNair. My thanks also to fellow editors in this Critical Shaw series: Brigitte Bogar, Dorothy Hadfield, Christopher Innes, Michel Pharand, and Gustavo Rodriguez Martin. As always, my wife, Barbara Conolly, has been an invaluable advisor and sounding board.
Bernard Shaw is not the household name he once was, but in the 1920s and 1930s he was certainly the worlds most famous English-language playwright, and arguably one of the most famous people in the world. His plays were internationally performed and acclaimed, his views on matters great and small were relentlessly solicited by the media, he was pursued by paparazzi long before the word was even invented, the biggest names in politics, the arts, entertainment, even sportsGandhi, Nehru, Churchill, Rodin, Twain, Wells, Lawrence of Arabia, Elgar, Einstein, Garbo, Chaplin, Stalin, Tunney and many morewelcomed his company, and his correspondents in the tens of thousands of letters he wrote during his long lifetime constitute a veritable whos who of world culture and politics. And Shaw remains the only person ever to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.
Shaws reputation rests securely not just on his plays, a dozen or so of which have come to be recognized as classicsMan and Superman, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, and Saint Joan perhaps now the most familiar of thembut also on his early work as a music, art, literary, and theater critic, and on his lifelong political activism. After he moved to London from his native Dublin in 1876, and after completing five novels, he established himself as one of Londons most controversial, feared, and admired critics, and while he eventually retired from earning his living as a critic in order to focus on playwriting, he continued to lecture and write about cultural and other issuesreligion, for examplewith scorching intelligence. As for politics, his early commitment to Socialism, and his later expressed admiration for Communism and contempt for Capitalism, meant that while his views were relentlessly refuted by the establishment press they could rarely be ignoredhardly surprising given the logic and passion that underpinned them.
Winston Churchill once declared Shaw to be the greatest living master of letters in the English-speaking world, and the selections from Shaws reviews, essays, speeches, and correspondence contained in the five volumes of this Critical Shaw series provide abundant evidence to validate Churchills high regard. Shaw wroteand spokevoluminously, and his complete works on the topics covered by this seriesLiterature, Music, Religion, Theater, and Politicswould fill many more than five volumes. The topics reflect Shaws deepest interests and they inspired some of his most brilliant nondramatic writing. The selections in each volume give a comprehensive and representative survey of his thinking, and show him to be not just the great rhetorician that Churchill and others acknowledged, but also one of the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century.
Leonard Conolly
Robinson College, Cambridge
December 2015
While Bernard Shaw is remembered today principally for his playsMrs Warrens Profession, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan, among many othershe also devoted a great deal of his time, energy, and intellectual effort to politics. It would be an exaggeration to rank Shaw as a political thinker alongside great British philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes (15881679), John Locke (16321704), David Hume (171176), or John Stuart Mill (180673), but his ability to engage intelligently, provocatively, and profusely with the many huge political issues that paralleled his long life (18561950) made him one of the most important public intellectuals in Great Britain from the heyday of high Victorianism to the creation of the welfare state by the Labour government elected at the close of the Second World War.
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