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  Fabianism - An essay by G.D.H. Cole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Fabian socialism was and has remained essentially evolutionary and gradualist (hence its name, from the tactics of Fabius Cunctator), expecting socialism to come as the sequel to the full realization of universal suffrage and representative government.
Fabian literature, on the other hand, seems often to be unconscious of the relevance of class distinctions and shows no belief at all in a class struggle as the instrument of change.
Indeed, the Fabian policy and attitude were adopted almost in their entirety by Labour after the war; and the recent comparative inactivity of the society is largely due to the fact that the Labour party is a larger reincarnation of Fabianism.
www.wcml.org.uk /group/fabianism.htm   (2599 words)

  
 FABIAN SOCIALISM
The British counterpart of the German Marxian revisionists and heavily influenced by the English Historical school, the upper-middle-class intellectual group - the "Fabian Society" - emerged in 1884 as a strand of latter-day utopian socialism.
At the core of the Fabian Society were the Webbs - Sidney J. Webb and his wife, Beatrice Potter Webb (married 1892).
Political scientist and one of the Fabian Society's "inner circle", one of the contributors to the 1889 Fabian Essays, although he later became disenchanted and resigned.
cepa.newschool.edu /het/schools/fabian.htm   (1002 words)

  
 Archive | May 21, 2001 | Fabian Conservatism
Inch by inch, because the direction of Fabian Socialists is also the same, while their ideological opponents are sometimes adamant, sometimes tired, sometimes fierce, sometimes indifferent, and sometimes even supportive, Fabians have pushed modern democracies to a point where the putative "political center" is actually very far to the left.
Fabian Conservatism will win because it is based on the same factors that allowed Fabius to succeed in Italy thousands of years ago: Conservatives are already brave, disciplined, and motivated troops.
Fabians do not lose battles, became they pick their battles - and many small battles, with dozens of minor victories, are better than one big toss of the dice at Cannae or Waterloo.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0501fabian.htm   (1063 words)

  
 Fabians
For the Fabians all progress must be by slow, gradual struggle, reform-by-reform, within the law and over a lengthy period of time.
Fabianism therefore tends towards the rule of the bureaucrats, or that section of the educated middle class.
Social happiness, common ownership, free access, democratic control; all can be achieved by the working class.
www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/may01/fabian.html   (1133 words)

  
 Fabian Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fabian socialists were critical of free trade and embraced protectionism in the interests of protecting the realm from foreign competition.
The Fabians also favored the nationalization of land, believing that rents collected by landowners were unearned, an idea which drew heavily from the work of American economist Henry George.
Many Fabians participated in the formation of the Labour Party in 1900, and the group's constitution, written by Shaw, borrowed heavily from the founding documents of the Fabian Society.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fabianism   (2417 words)

  
 Fabian Society
Hyndman and the Social Democratic Federation and were concerned with helping society to move to a socialist society "as painless and effective as possible".
At the second meeting of the Fabian Society on 25th January, 1884, reports were presented on a lecture by Henry George and a Conference of the Democratic Federation (later the Social Democratic Federation); the rules were adopted, and Mr.
Socialism with these people was of the Utopian kind, a mixture of Robert Owen, William Morris and of the mid-Victorian social reformers.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Pfabian.htm   (2476 words)

  
 Socialism
Democratic socialism is centered on humanist ideals, with the ultimate goal of allowing each individual the opportunity and means for his or her personal development and individual satisfaction.
Socialism evolved in reaction to the hard fact of capitalist oppression, and thus is directly antithetical to it.
Socialism most certainly would demand a lot out of an individual, but socialism would give every individual, through collective self-government, control of her own work, freedom from poverty, and liberty to pursue a good life-- and that's the way it should be.
www.bergonia.org /Gov/socialism.htm   (2820 words)

  
 ACL - British Revisionism and the Fabian Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Fabian Society was created in 1884 after a suicide note left by Derby Fabian Henry Hutchinson also left 10,000 British pounds to the Fabians "for propaganda and other purposes." British Fabian socialism was created to promote international communism and free trade with a friendlier face.
Fabian followers are called "agents for change." Fabian facilitators are installed in every government agency in the world, and they influence all mainstream media outlets.
His biographers describe Fabian socialism like this: "..The difference from other organizations of the sort was that they were to do it not through revolution, as Marx advised, but by systematic, progressive legislation, enhanced by persuasion and mass education..
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 The Imitation of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It is rather that the particular variety of socialism that has had greatest influence on the United States originated in England, that most developments occurred in England before they did in the United States, and that the imitation of England was the most pronounced feature of the American thrust to socialism.
The Fabian Society was organized in England in 1884 and, because it drew into its ranks and orbit such talented writers as George Bernard Shaw, H. Wells, Sidney and Beatrice (Potter) Webb, and Graham Wallas, was not long in beginning to have an impact.
Social disintegration occurs as the breakup of families, the loss of hold of institutions, decreasing vitality in voluntary organizations, and the breakdown of the power of social prescription.
www.libertyhaven.com /countriesandregions/britain/imitation.shtml   (5334 words)

  
 Draper: The Two Souls of Socialism
Modern socialism was born in the course of the half century or so that lies between the Great French Revolution and the revolutions of 1848.
The Fabian Society was designed in 1884 to be pilot-fish to a shark: at first the shark was the Liberal Party; but when the permeation of Liberalism failed miserably, and labor finally organized its own class party despite the Fabians, the pilot-fish simply reattached itself.
But the recurrence of revolutionary upheavals and social disturbances, defined precisely by the intrusion onto the historical stage of previous inactive masses and characteristic of periods when basic social change is on the agenda, is just as "normal" in history as the intervening periods of conservatism.
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 History [Australian Fabian Society]
Fabian publications, including our long-running pamphlet series, have played an important part in determining both state and national political agendas.
Gough Whitlam adopted the Fabian approach from the day he entered parliament, and the seminal 1972 Whitlam policy speech - the most comprehensive program ever submitted to the Australian people - was a drawing together of twenty years of systematic Fabian planning and research.
Fabianism and Culture: A Study in British Socialism and the Arts by Ian Britain (1982.
www.fabian.org.au /99.asp   (329 words)

  
 Debates - Fabian Socialism vs. Individualism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the late 19th century the classical liberal, free market orthodoxy was beginning to be challenged by socialists like George Bernard Shaw, who put together a collection of essays iin 1889 advocating greater intervention by the state in the economy.
The playwright George Bernard Shaw, along with the writers and educators Sidney and Beatrice Webb, the feminist Emmeline Pankhurst, and the novelist H. Wells, was one of the earliest members of the Fabian Society, which was founded in England in In 1884.
Fabian Essays on Socialism which advocated policies which would eventually lead to the modern welfare state.
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 BC 50 & 51: Socialism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Socialism, espoused in a utopian form by Robert Owen (1771-1858) in the 1820s and 1830s, was made scientific and more resolute by Karl Marx (1818-1883), who after 1849 lived in London and wrote, from his desk in the British Museum, his revolutionary masterpiece, Das Kapital.
With some dim impression that Socialism is one of the Utopian dreams they remember to have heard comfortably disposed of in their academic youth as the impossible ideal of Humanity-intoxicated Frenchmen, they go their ways through the nineteenth century as a countryman blunders through Cheapside.
two streams are united: advocates of social reconstruction have learnt the lesson of Democracy, and know that it is through the slow and gradual turning of the popular mind to new principles that social reorganization bit by bit comes.
www.u.arizona.edu /~jakreide/march24.html   (2402 words)

  
 The Fabian society
The Fabians believed that social reform could be achieved by a new political approach of gradual and patient argument, 'permeating' their ideas into the circles of those with power: 'the inevitability of gradualism' was an early slogan.
As Sidney Webb wrote to the Fabian Edward Pease in 1886, 'Nothing is done in England without the consent of a small intellectual yet political class in London, not 2000 in number.
Believing that voters could be persuaded of socialism's justice, they sought to achieve reform by education, stimulating debate through lectures and discussions initiated by democratically accountable and educated professionals.
www.lse.ac.uk /lsehistory/fabian.htm   (300 words)

  
 Network America News
Fabian Socialism holds the same basic tenets as Soviet Communism sans armed revolution.
LSE was founded in 1884 by Sidney and Beatrice Webb; not by coincidence, they also founded the Fabian Society and were its guiding lights until their death.
Now, with Communism's job successfully done in those areas, the Financial Wirepullers of Fabianism and Communism are trying to integrate the entire world under their usurious and 'high tax' financial domination.
www.votefraud.org /News/2000/4/040900.html   (1717 words)

  
 Stephen Pollard • What does Fabian socialism mean today? (Wall Street Journal Europe)
The Fabian Society was the inspiration behind the broadly left-of-centre consensual politics across most of the Western world.
That Fabian Society of old would never have published a pamphlet such as Tony Blair"s, which demolishes many of the shibboleths of the state-run welfare state for which the Fabians were in large measure responsible.
The new approach of the Fabian Society today, however, is worth looking at, because it makes a broader point about the Labour Party itself and the direction to be taken by the government over the next decade.
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 Depopulation of a Planet : LA IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Fabian Socialist movement remains distinct from so-called Socialist Party groups and its forward crawl was thus almost imperceptible to the majority of Americans.
Thus was "scientific Socialism" adopted as the way to overcoming the United States and making of it the leading Socialist country in the world.
Fabian Socialism directs the destiny of the world in a way which is disguised to render it unrecognizable.
la.indymedia.org /print.php?id=126397   (8471 words)

  
 Opera Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Advocated socialism, the abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, free secular education, birth control, changes in the marriage and divorce laws.
Became Labour correspondent for the Manchester Guardian and was professor of social and political theory at University College in Oxford.
Joined the Fabian Society and contributed the article, the Industrial Basis of Socialism, to the book Essays in Fabian Socialism, edited by George Bernard Shaw.
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 Are the Clintons Fabian Socialists?
I don't know if the Klintoons are formal Fabians or not, but they are certainly blood relatives in their societal views.
If you are a Freeper reading this, do a google on "Fabian Socialism" to learn how this insidious means of implementing socialism in the United States has accomplished it goals.
You see, along with a "new American patriotism" there is also a "new social compact." That "compact" diminishes our sovereignty, entrusts our inalienable rights to international courts and police, and it replaces our hundreds-year-old social compact freely made among people with one between the governments of the world and the masses.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/988046/posts   (2194 words)

  
 Template talk:Socialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I don't believe that any supportor of socialism will be appreciative of it being listed as part of their ideology.
I've temporarily removed the link to Revolutionary Socialism until it's clear that it is significant enough to be mentioned.
I've added Utopian socialism because it belongs in the template, either as a current of socialist thought, or at the very least as an influence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Template_talk:Socialism   (2502 words)

  
 The Truth Seeker - Who Really Runs the World? Part 5
Some time ago an elderly friend of mine told me how she had attended Fabian Society meetings in the 1930s, and she confirmed that world government was what was discussed even then.
In short, those who adhere to Fabian philosophy, seek a highly centralised power base — the elimination of national sovereignty is fundamental to the process.
The emblem of the Fabian Society is the tortoise, which represents slow but steady progress.
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /print.asp?ID=402   (3621 words)

  
 Asia Society: Glossary
A popular strand of socialism developed by intellectuals and artists in England in the 1880s.
Fabian socialism advocated the parliamentary road to socialism and was influential in the formation of the Labour Party.
It was gradualist in design, scorning revolutionary methods, yet did favor public ownership of industries, class cooperation, and elitist bureaucratic leadership.
www.asiasource.org /reference/display.cfm?wordid=1835   (163 words)

  
 UTOPIAN SOCIALISTS
Théorie des quatre mouvements et des destinées générales (The Social Destiny of Man), 1808.
Also took the Ricardian labor theory of value to its exploitation logic, but preferred to criticize social organization rather than recommend any utopian visions for it.
A deep pessimist of the social impact of the industrial revolution, Le Play advocated legal and social reforms that would encourage a "family-like" relationship between capital and labor on the factory floor.
cepa.newschool.edu /het/schools/utopia.htm   (1662 words)

  
 GLOSSARY of Education Terms
A member of the Fabian Society which sought the gradual worldwide spread of socialism by peaceful means.
A strategy that hides or blends politically correct social philosophies and matching activities into the basic content of the curriculum.
Combining community service with politically correct instruction that encourages students to see social problems from a collective new-paradigm perspective -- and to see spiritual differences through the filter of a pluralistic, unbiblical worldview.
www.crossroad.to /glossary/education.html   (6145 words)

  
 Hal Draper: The Two Souls of Socialism (Chap.6)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
“State, take hold of things!” – this is the socialism of the whole lot.
This is why Schumpeter is correct in observing that the British equivalent of German state-socialism is – Fabianism, the socialism of Sidney Webb.
It was almost chemically-pure social-democratic reformism unalloyed, particularly before the rise of the mass labor and socialist movement in Britain, which it did not want and did not help to build (despite a common myth to the contrary).
www.marxists.org /archive/draper/1966/twosouls/6-fabians.htm   (1156 words)

  
 Sydney Olivier
The following year Olivier was elected to Fabian Society Executive Committee and in 1886 was appointed Secretary of the organisation.
Over the next twenty years, overseas postings restricted him involvement in the Fabian Society.
Webb and Olivier were colleagues in the Colonial Office, and it is said that for some time the Fabian records - they were not very bulky - were stored on a table in Downing Street.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUoliver.htm   (400 words)

  
 English Books > Politics/Current Affairs > Communism & Socialism
From Prairie To Prison: The Life Of Social Activist Kate Richards Ohare
From Utopian Socialism To The Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Union
Future for Socialism?, a : Political Theology and the 'triump of Capitalism
www.netstoreusa.com /books/index/bkbpr500F.shtml   (1321 words)

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