During his 1931 “ pilgrimage” to Stalin’s wonderland, Shaw was given a glimpse of what he referred to as a “land of hope.” He denied that the regime had imprisoned significant numbers of political dissidents, describing the gulags as popular vacation destinations. In Shaw’s eyes, the pinnacle of civilization had been reached by the Soviet Union. This enslavement was necessary for the people’s welfare most of the population were brutes who, when left to their own devices, could not fend for themselves and thus required the state to “reorganize” their lives for them. comfortable notions of freedom.įor Shaw, “the goods” could only be delivered if the people were bound in universal slavery to the state. Mussolini, Kemal, Pilsudski, Hitler and the rest can all depend on me to judge them by their ability to deliver the goods and not by. An apologist for the world’s most brutal and oppressive dictators, Shaw had a passionate hatred for liberty, writing, To say the least, citing Shaw is an odd choice if one is advocating for greater freedom and independence. Based on Shaw’s analysis, Ghodsee concludes that capitalism makes slaves out of women who, under socialism, would supposedly be happy and free. The free market forces women to be reliant upon men, wrote Shaw, turning sex into a virtual bribe for financial security.
In an excerpt from her recently published book Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism, Kristen Ghodsee freely quotes from the works of the playwright and Fabian Socialist George Bernard Shaw to bolster her argument that capitalism is inherently sexist.
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