title: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (Social Science Classics Series)
author:  George Bernard Shaw 
description: 1928. Shaw, Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist and winner of the Nobel prize in 1925, was an ardent socialist, a member of the Fabian Society, and a popular public speaker on behalf of socialism. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism is his most notable nonfiction work. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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  SOCIALISM AND SUPERIOR
  
  BRAINS
  
  This book provides a comprehensive critical account of the political ideas of
  Bernard Shaw, the master intellectual of British socialism and one of the most
  influential political commentators of the twentieth century.
  
  Shaw assumed many roles as a thinker, among them those of artist-philosopher,
  clowning prophet and pamphleteer. This book explains the methods he employed,
  the levels of abstraction at which his thought operated, and the intentions
  which informed his epic engagement with ideas. Part I provides an intellectual
  biography, while at the same time analysing Shaw’s key concerns in relation to
  his Fabianism, arguments for equality of income and ideas on democracy and
  education. Part II looks at those areas which Shaw approached as long-standing
  historical problems or as dramas requiring immediate thought or action: sexual
  equality, the Irish question, war, fascism and Sovietism.
  
  _Socialism and Superior Brains_ is dir