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. The free market forces women to be reliant upon men, wrote Shaw, turning sex into a virtual bribe for financial security. Based on Shaw’s analysis, Ghodsee concludes that capitalism makes slaves out of women who, under socialism, would supposedly be happy and free.
Honoring Evil
To say the least, citing Shaw is an odd choice if one is advocating for greater freedom and independence. An apologist for the world’s most brutal and oppressive dictators, Shaw had a passionate hatred for liberty, writing,
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Yes I read Shaw , following his fabian ideas there would be no drug or alcohol addicts , they would be put down humanly like a sick dog .
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Shaw openly expressed his disappointment that war was inadequate in reducing "excess population". A merchant of death in the name of "social justice" if ever there was one.
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