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Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket
by George Bernard Shaw

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket

Companion, by George Bernard Shaw This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Release Date: July 22, 2008 [EBook #26108]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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Produced by Russell Bell

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The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion

by

George Bernard Shaw

(1856-1950)

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Writing as: JOHN TANNER, M.I.R.C. (Member of the Idle Rich Class).

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PREFACE TO THE REVOLUTIONIST'S HANDBOOK

"No one can contemplate the present condition of the masses of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better." Sir Robert Giffen. Essays in Finance, vol. ii. p. 393.

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FOREWORD

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

The constitution of England is revolutionary. To a Russian or Anglo-Indian bureaucrat, a general election is as much a revolution as a referendum or plebiscite in which the people fight instead of voting. The French Revolution overthrew one set of rulers and substituted another with different interests and different views. That is what a general election enables the people to do in

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