An Unsocial Socialist
by George Bernard Shaw
Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, it is determined to overthrow a society permeated by class and sexual exploitation. The admiring wife Henrietta "loves" him: she has to leave him. The son of a millionaire gives up everything to impersonate a "peasant-clover". But when this unsocial socialist goes to work as a gardener near a girls' school, he meets his wife - because Agatha Wylie is a new type of well-armed woman: and she does not like her. George Bernard Shaw, through the character of the prophet the clown Trefusis, first presented his opinion on what the relationship between the sexes should be. Galloping, violent, and irresistibly entertaining, NON-SOCIAL SOCIALISM is a brilliant satire on the social prejudices of the great writer of the past.
