What George Bernard Shaw thinks about capitalism

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Irish playwright and polemicist (1856 to 1950); Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1925; author of Maxims for Revolutionists.

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2 dated positions, c. 1906–1907, in their own words. Our reading of what George Bernard Shaw has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1906–1907

   Our readingTreating some money as tainted and other money as clean is a superstition

   Their wordsThe notion that you can earmark certain coins as tainted is an unpractical individualist superstition.

   ↗Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics (1906)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book

3. c. 1906–1907

   Our readingChurches are tolerated only on condition that they preach submission to the capitalist state

   Their wordsChurches are suffered to exist only on condition that they preach submission to the State as at present capitalistically organized.

   ↗Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics (1906)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book