Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw and the Revolution

Source: The Liberator, December, 1922
Transcribed: by Mitch Abidor
HTML formatting: David Walters in 2005 for the Marxists Internet Archive
Public Domain: Bernard Shaw Reference Archive 2005. This work is completely free.
I. We wrote to Shaw: Will the Russian Soviet Republic continue to Hold out?
Bernard Shaw wrote us in reply: Why not?
II. Does it offer, aside from local and accidental Features, the pattern of a new world-
order?
Shaw: It formally inaugurated a new epoch; but its patterns are still in a very early experimental
stage.
III. Do you look for a general European revolution in your lifetime?
Shaw: Not again at 66. Europe is too big And not sufficiently integrated and organized, to be
capable of any single simultaneous operation,; but I have seen her shake off three super-empires
and replace them with republics; so that she is now predominately republican and only
apologetically and shakily dynastic-monarchical. Surely that is enough for a lifetime.
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