The Soul of Man under Socialism
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Oscar Wilde-witty raconteur, flamboyant hedonist, and self-destructive lover-is most familiar as the leader of brilliant comedies, including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Spouse, and the decadent novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. This selection of critical writings reveals a different side of the fantastic writer-the deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and the eloquent and original thinker about society and art. This illuminating collection includes “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.,” “In Defense of Dorian Gray,” reviews, and the writings from Intentions (1891), including “The Decay of Lying,” “Pen, Pencil, Poison,” and “The Critic as Artist.”
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I read this book, translated to the portuguese, here in Brazil.This book was writen, in XIX century.About socialism, this book is prophetic.
This book doesn’t talks, only about socialism, but also about additional things.This book is fleeting, very simple to read, and even after more than 120 years later, this book is still, better than many additional options to read about socialism.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is widely remembered as a fantastic man of letters. In this 1891 essay, the fantastic man turns his thoughts to what the world would be like if private property were to be outlawed. He foresaw that poverty and want would straight away and permanently disappear, while government would melt away, and the individual would be freed from any compulsion to do anything that he or she did not want to do. An age of art and beauty would arise, as the individual would become supreme. “It will be a marvelous thing–the right personality of man–when we see it. It will grow naturally and simply, flowerlike, or as a tree grows.”
Such lofty thoughts! Such flowery words! Such gorgeous dreams! What could any man have against it? Well…basically…reality. Gone are the days when rich and cultured Fabians sit around tables building gorgeous and impractical schemes.
We have seen communism tried all around the world, resulting in Gulags, and Killing Fields, and Cultural Revolutions – and poverty, and oppression, and death. Such flowery thoughts as these penned by Oscar Wilde were gorgeous when they were first penned, but now they merely remind one of how such dreamers led millions and millions of their fellow human beings into the horror that real communism is.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The average work about socialism talks about such dry topics as economics and politics. This essay doesn’t do any of that. It goes into art, and even pseudo-psychology (one could say). It covers a broad variety of topics in a fleeting amount of pages. I agree with nearly everything said in this book. It’s certainly worth reading and will really make you reflect.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5