The Intelligent Woman?s Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism, and FascismAs 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.