George Bernard Shaw supported Stalin

[Ixtab]

During the so-called 'great terror', asked whether he considered that the revolution had "attracted degenerate types", Shaw responded: "On the contrary it has attracted superior types all the world over to an extraordinary extent wherever it has been understood." (Source (http://www.cronaca.com/archives/001102.html))

He continued: "But the top of the ladder is a very trying place for old revolutionists who have had no administrative experience, who have had no financial experience, who have been trained as penniless hunted fugitives with Karl Marx on the brain and not as statesmen. They often have to be pushed off the ladder with a rope around their necks." (Ibid).

Beatrice and Sidney Webb, two other prominent Fabians, also praised Stalin in their book "Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation". Here is an excerpt from that book,
http://www.mltranslations.org/Russia/webb1.htm

I will post more about this later.

[Kodos]

Shaw was a moron.

[Geist]

Shaw was a moron.

Read any Shaw plays lately? Try Man and Superman and come back to me on the moron thing.

You might mean, 'I dont like Shaw's politics and I think he was wrong' perhaps, but moron, give it up lad.

[Geist]

In 1931, Shaw was the first prominent Western writer to meet Stalin. Following his return, Shaw infamously wrote that rumours of a famine in Russia were a fabrication. He had seen for himself that Russia was well stocked with food. Shaw is despised in Ukraine to this day.

Interesting article all the same.

[Petr]

Shaw was a useless human being, like so many superficially clever modern Western intellectuals.


Petr

[Geist]

Shaw was a useless human being, like so many superficially clever modern Western intellectuals.


Petr

Is this worthless, ad hominem reply day?

[Billy Score]

I know very little about shaw but if you are going to criticize him please do so constructively, folks.