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 Fabianism - An essay by G.D.H. Cole
The Fabians are essentially rationalists, seeking to convince men by logical argument that socialism is desirable and offering their arguments to all men without regard to the classes to which they belong.
Hence the stress which the Fabians always laid on their contention that there was no fundamental difference between land and capital or in the incomes derived from them.
In accordance with their doctrine of continuity the Fabians set out to develop existing institutions by permeating with this or that element of their doctrine those who had power to influence policy, e.g.
http://www.wcml.org.uk/group/fabianism.htm   (2599 words)

  
 The Fabian Spirit - John Taylor Gatto
Fabians emerged in the first years of the twentieth century as great champions of social efficiency in the name of the evolutionary destiny of the race.
As the movement developed, Fabians became aristocratic friends of other social-efficiency vanguards like Taylorism or allies of the Methodist social gospel crowd of liberal Christian religionists busy substituting Works for Faith in one of the most noteworthy religious reversals of all time.
Force in the absence of divine injunctions is a tool to be employed unsentimentally.
http://www.rit.edu/~cma8660/mirror/www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/9e.htm   (2172 words)

  
 The War of the Words
Now the Fabians rejected the Word of God as the basis for society.
In 1883, a group of 16 men met in a parlour and had discussions "groping for some kind of secular faith to replace the old God-given certainties." The Fabians plan was to create a socialist state in England by promoting Marxist and Darwinist doctrines in the form of literature.
Yet they changed the destiny of their nation.
http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0298_War_of_the_Words.html   (1675 words)

  
 NEH 2000 Summer Seminar - Robert E. Veto's Paper
Much later, toward the very end of the existence of the Fabians, Clement Atlee noted in 1955 that "when I was young....a working-class home had a sink, but no bath, the family lived in the kitchen - now the typical working-class home is typically lower-middle-class." [quoted in Fremantle, p.
Over time, as those same functions came to be filled by the state, the friendly societies slowly evolved out of existence, except for some social functions.
Despite Webbís analogy, the Fabians were not nearly as intimidating as the Jesuits could be, although certainly they were often equally as passionate in defense of their cause.
http://www.umassd.edu/ir/rveto/Friendly_Societies.htm   (2453 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Politics Comment In an ideal world
Armed with facts, arguments and political persuasion, the Fabians created a uniquely practical utopianism.
But many of the most telling critiques have come from within the Fabian fold.
Yet the Fabians were confident that their ideas could change the world, They were - though they would not have recognised the term - creating the world's first "thinktank" and surely the most influential in the world of practical politics.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1117051,00.html   (1416 words)

  
 Fabian Society
Pease's people are Quakers and he has the cheerful serenity and self-containedness common to the sect.
The meeting was over at 10 - but some of us stayed till 11.30 talking.
Edward Pease, the Secretary, regarded us as if we were two beetles who had crept under the door, and when we said we wanted to join the Society he asked coldly, "Why?" We said, humbly, that we were socialists and persuaded him we were genuine.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Pfabian.htm   (2476 words)

  
 Fabian's Hammer
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http://fabianshammer.blogspot.com   (12706 words)

  
 "The Fabians"
In Great Britain and North America, under liberal and conservative governments alike, the state's influence spread.
Moreso once you understand what is taking place.
"1984" was written by a member of the secret society known as "The Fabians".
http://www.apfn.net/MESSAGEBOARD/4-13-03/discussion.cgi.54.html   (1799 words)

  
 The Silver Bear Cafe
Fabians are, according to their own symbolism, wolves in sheep’s clothing, and that explains why their style is more effective in countries where parliamentary traditions are well established and where people expect to have a voice in their own political destiny.
Fabians were never enthusiastic over this class-conflict view, probably because most of them were bourgeoisie, but Lenin and Stalin accepted it wholeheartedly.
That is why their members often move from one group to the other – or why some of them are actually members of both groups at the same time.
http://www.silverbearcafe.com/hiddenagendas.html   (4666 words)

  
 STATE OF MICHIGAN
To say that Fabians I received no tangible benefit from the cancellation of their note and discharge of their mortgage is erroneous.
II and his wife, Karen L. Fabian (Fabians II).
Based on all of the evidence, we believe that Upjohn and Montgomery Ward are distinguishable and that the trial court should be affirmed on this issue.
http://www.michbar.org/opinions/appeals/2000/022500/6404.html   (1968 words)

  
 Socialism: Theory and Practice - Fabianism
In 1938, the Fabians described themselves and their mission as follows:
The Fabian movement was very much a scientific movement and its beliefs were based on careful analysis of fact and study.
Indeed, he was the perfect symbol of their thought process.
http://www.the-wood.org/socialism/fabianism.htm   (788 words)

  
 Yugoslavia and Littleton
Perhaps you haven’t noticed that the greatest enemy of Fabians is Jesus Christ and the Bible!
Whether you call it "Socialism" or "Communism" or "Fabianism", the end result is tyrannical and it is not dead, as we are so often told!
Following Karl Marx’s death in 1883, his theories were made a world force by two developments … rise of the Fabian Society in England and Lenin’s Bolshevik movement.
http://www.learn-usa.com/of_relevance/potp003.htm   (878 words)

  
 John Maynard Keynes: Lavender & Bolshevik
British Fabians and Joseph Fels, an American soap manufacturer who was also a Fabian, had financed the Russian gathering and furnished them a hall in a Christian church.
The Fabians had developed the posture of “respectability” to a fine art and the value of Keynes’ book as an “impartial work” was in jeopardy.
There he joined forces with his Fabian American comrade, Walter Lippmann, who was among those representing the equally blind U.S. Government.
http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/keynes.htm   (2237 words)

  
 Letters: Marx-Engels Correspondence 1893
The Fabians are an ambitious group here in London who have understanding enough to realise the inevitability of the social revolution, but who could not possibly entrust this gigantic task to the rough proletariat alone and are therefore kind enough to set themselves at the head.
The S.D.F. on the one hand and the Fabians on the other have not been able, with their sectarian attitude, to absorb the mass pressure for socialism in the provinces, so the foundation of a third Party was quite good.
In Bradford, where they were represented, they several times decisively declared themselves against the London Executive of the Fabians.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1893/letters/93_01_18.htm   (703 words)

  
 www.BlackCrayon.com: Dictionary: Definitions
It is commonly asserted that Fabianism and Leninism differ only in method and pace: that the former believes in gradual change and the latter in revolution.
To lay a ghost at the outset and to dismiss semantics, a liberal is here defined as one who believes in utilizing the full force of government for the advancement of social, political, and economic justice at the municipal, state, national, and international levels....
Toward the end of the 19th century, a group of Brits, decided that they were in favor of socialism in the original sense of a planned economy, but that they were opposed to the revolutionary socialism of the Marxists and the communist anarchists.
http://www.blackcrayon.com/library/dictionary/definitions   (10323 words)

  
 The Fabians and the British Empire, Part III
Secondly, his remarks are interesting in that they also mirror later statements by proponents of imperial preference and closer unity among the various parts of the British Empire.
This theme was one with which he spent his entire life dealing, and is central to Fabian socialism.
After Fabian Essays, only two references were made to imperialism before 1895 besides two articles about the activities of the Bombay Fabian Society in Fabian News.
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/945/33733   (502 words)

  
 The New Fabians [Free Republic]
Unfortunately people are mesmerized by our heritage, and refuse to acknowledge how far we have ventured from it.
A Cuba Moment, No. 8: The Fear of God.
The Fabians said the same, advocating, in the words of Beatrice Webb, the "transference" of "the emotion of self-sacrificing service" from God to the state.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3915d8b46a16.htm   (2129 words)

  
 mhp: The Fabians, the Round Table, and the Rhodes Scholars
Known as the 'Prophet of Our Time' because of writing about many things before they came to be, in books like The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, Wells would give the Fabians the notoriety they needed.
Some of these people were also members of the Society for Psychichal Research, an organization dedicated to spiritualism research, which was founded in 1882.
It is obvious that Wells either based his writings on the actual plans of the Fabian elitists, or used his knowledge of what they had already done in order to formulate a theory of what they were going to do in the future.
http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=FinalWarn05-1   (4115 words)

  
 Fabianism
However, the great minds and personalities that gave sustenance to the early years of the Society could not sustain its unity.
Indeed, it may not be too much of an exaggeration to say that the Fabians were in a very significant way responsible for many of the social reforms that culminated in the post-war British welfare state.
They were joined by the Quaker Frank Podmore the following year, and it was he who suggested calling the group the "Fabian" society.
http://www.modjourn.brown.edu/mjp/Essays/Fabianism.htm   (924 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 92045211
Many of Australia's first Fabians are known as legislators, priests, jurists, men and women of letters, diplomats, feminists and educators, yet few are recognized as Fabians.
This book recreates the lives of the first Fabians in Australia, their political ideas and strategies, and presents their visions for society in a lively and entertaining way.
Until this book, little attention has been given to Australian Fabian thinkers, activists and organizations, and their long-term influence on Australian political and intellectual life.
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam025/92045211.html   (190 words)

  
 Mark Atwood -
While I have heard of the Fabians as some kind of movement, that's about the extent of my knowledge right there.
Nehru is never mentioned as being associated with the Fabians.
Only then would he [Nehru] realize his personal destiny, to become its [Indias] first prime minister and impose upon its masses the Fabian socialism that had so impressed him when, as a young Indian outsider at Cambridge, he was dazzled by London's salons.
http://fallenpegasus.livejournal.com/475258.html   (191 words)

  
 Sting like a butterfly, buzz like a bee
Shaw, for example, delivered fiery lectures on capitalism and social issues, deploring class, militarism and religion, often having to flee from enraged conservatives through windows or back doors.
Shaw's philosophy of so-called “Vitalism” amounted to no more than admiration for forceful people who could impose their will on others.
The Fabians were not just Tories in reformist clothing, although the disguise was good.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1997/299/299p28.htm   (1313 words)

  
 Young Fabians - definition of Young Fabians in Encyclopedia
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Young_Fabians   (50 words)

  
 Black information Link:
What the manifesto doesn’t contain are token gestures floating ideas with no prospect of success and no follow-through.
The manifesto contains practical demands for changes that would, if implemented, make a real difference to the lives of black communities.
The Fabians have opted for a headline-grabbing right-on gesture over the need to get serious about institutional racism.
http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=10328&grp=77&cat=387   (403 words)

  
 Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Long 19th Century
Mill discusses how his faith in Liberalism slipped away and he began tending towards Liberal Socialism (i.e., that of Hobhouse rather than the Fabians).
By one of the founders of British non-revolutionary intellectual socialism - known as "Fabianism".
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook3.html   (7840 words)

  
 HiddenMysteries Conspiracy Archive
Fabian teachings had been spreading also in the Liberal party.
The Fabian Society came into existence in the last few years of the nineteenth century.
This form of socialism made its greatest headway in England during the 19th century.
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/research/fabiansociety.html   (2391 words)

  
 FABIAN SOCIALISM
Apparently, it was Shaw who prodded the Fabians into supporting the Boer War.
Famous novelist who broke with the Fabians in 1909 on the issue of mass agitation (or rather lack of it).
This was to be accomplished, they argued, not through mass organization but rather by the selective education of the powerful "few" who would lead the reforms in government (hopefully themselves), thus they only belatedly extended their appeal beyond the narrow intelligentsia class from which they arose.
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/fabian.htm   (1002 words)

  
 Fabian Society Founded
Shaw believed Christianity was nonsense and that Jesus possessed an unbalanced mind.
She had completely rejected Christianity by age 27 (1874) and wrote for several radical journals to urge social reform, writing as well for the Fabians.
Brooke died at age 27 on the way to the Battle of Gallipoli, but would have moved to complete Agnosticism, and a condemnation of war, had he lived.
http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rants/0104almanac.htm   (521 words)

  
 Marxism Versus New Fabianism Part Two
The prejudice against Marxism after all is only a prejudice of ignorance and lack of study.
But, while rejecting the former empiricism of the old Fabians and of those who are the present leaders of our movement, they do not replace it by any coherent and worked out philosophy.
Events have forced him (and the new Fabians) to reject the cosy optimism of the Victorian Fabians, with their illusion of gradual development, of an inevitable progression slowly towards a better and better world.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/TUT/TUT7-1.html   (4350 words)

  
 SOCIALISM
A lesser known school called Fabianism is the kind that is permeating America.
Communism, Marxism, Socialism, and Fabianism are synonyms, different words that mean the same thing.
Fabianism has the same goals as Marxism, Communism, except that they believe they can achieve the socialist goals through the use of words and propaganda as opposed to revolution and violence.
http://home.southwind.net/~tomoyler/SOCIALISM.HTML   (350 words)

  
 Fabians
The rejection of Marxist theory in all its aspects by the Fabian Society has resulted in an organisation committed to producing idea after idea concerned with reforming one aspect or another of capitalism.
The fact is that all those having no access to the means of living, the working class, must work for those who have, the owning or capitalist class, at a rate less than the value of labour contained in their work.
Fabianism therefore tends towards the rule of the bureaucrats, or that section of the educated middle class.
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/may01/fabian.html   (1133 words)

  
 Fabian Forte at Brian's Drive-In Theater
James Stewart takes his family on a seaside holiday, only to be plagued by a lothario with eyes for his wife, a son who's glued to the TV set, a daughter who refuses to go out in public with braces, and two daughters with marital woes.
In 1959, Fabian signed with 20th Century Fox to do several films, the first of which was Hound Dog Man, released in the fall of 1959.
His next two singles, Turn Me Loose and Tiger, went into Top Ten in the spring of 1959.
http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/fabian.html   (1950 words)

  
 GunWeek.com
Like the Fabians, they believe they are smarter than everyone else, and should shape the future of the world.
Supreme elitists all, the Fabians believed that because they were smarter than everyone else, they should shape public policy internationally for the betterment of all mankind, whether mankind agreed with them or not.
Basically, they assumed everyone else was too stupid to know what they should do, so the Fabians would tell them, or at least tell the people who would decide.
http://www.gunweek.com/2003/hs011003.html   (1293 words)

  
 H.G. Wells - Free Online Library
This experience was basis for his novel The New Machiavelli (1911), which portrayed the noted Fabians.
Passionate concern for society led Wells to join the socialist Fabian Society in London in 1903.
It advocated a fairer society by planning for a gradual system of reforms.
http://wells.thefreelibrary.com   (1524 words)

  
 George Bernard Shaw on the Fabians
The following is part of a letter describing the early Fabians and the aims and ethos of the Fabian Society.
The Fabian lecturers are famous throughout the world.
Their executive council challenges the universe for quality, comprising as it does the eyeglassed and indomitable Bland (treasurer of the society - editor of To-Day, which is renowned for its poetry - verb.
http://faculty.goucher.edu/history231/shaw_on_the_fabians.htm   (159 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.
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.
We alone could get at that class.' The Fabians were especially active in London local government.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/LSEHistory/fabian.htm   (300 words)

  
 Fabian Families of Bucks County, PA
The book continues with three genealogical chapters on the descendants of the 1732 emigrant, Johann Michael Fabian, some with extensive historical biographies.
This volume is not just about Fabian families who resided in Bucks County, PA. It is much more.
The book begins with an 11-page review of the historical references of the Fabian name starting in Rome, circa 300 BC, through Europe, into the United States, and concludes with its various modern-day usages.
http://www.gamepuzzles.com/Fabian/fabian.htm   (428 words)

  
 Marxism Versus New Fabianism - Part One
To analyse adequately and criticise all the arguments in New Fabian Essays would require another book as lengthy or lengthier than the Essays themselves, especially as the Essays contradict each other in many fundamentals and do not constitute a harmonious philosophical, theoretical or political whole.
One striking feature of the Essays is the rejection at least in words of the narrow and provincial view of old Fabians who confined themselves to Britain and British problems and ignored world developments.
At the same time there is ferment within the ranks of the labour movement; the rank and file are looking for a theoretical and practical explanation of the inadequacies of the government of 1945-50 in order to implement policies which will clear the way for socialism.
http://www.marxist.com/TUT/TUT5-2.html   (2853 words)

  
 Fabians in the Assembly
Several of the Labour Assembly Members are already Fabians >> they are listed here.
This was the message of Welsh Cabinet Ministers at the November Fabian Annual Conference in Cardiff >> next Assembly Briefing is planned for January 2002 > Contact our Assembly Liaison Clerk Matthew Jenkins, now working with ELWa > you can E-mail him from here.
If your own Assembly Member is not yet a Fabian, you should do something about it!
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~rwevans1/FabianWales/ams001.html   (581 words)

  
 The Fabians and the British Empire, Part IV
Although [William] Clarke was the only one among the original founders who focused to any great degree on foreign and imperial affairs during the first fifteen years of the society’s existence, he was not the only member to voice opinions on imperialism before 1900.
The Fabians and the British Empire, Part IV Home
The Fabians and the British Empire, Part IV Modern British History
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/945/33734   (324 words)

  
 Marxism Glossary - F
During the imperialist world war (1914-18) the Fabians took a social-chauvinist stand.
The Fabian Society represented, as Lenin put it, "the most finished expression of opportunism and liberal-labour politics." The Fabians sought to deflect the proletariat from the class struggle and advocated the possibility of a peaceful, gradual transition from capitalism to socialism by means of reforms.
- Members of the reformist and opportunist Fabian Society, formed by a group of British bourgeois intellectuals in 1884.
http://www.newyouth.com/archives/theory/glossary/f.html   (758 words)

  
 The Young Fabians
Size matters- The word limit for a one page article is 830 words.
The Scottish column and the Northern Ireland column are written by members from that particular region; whilst ‘On the House', is written from a Westminster perspective by Ben Leapman, a Young Fabian who is political reporter at the Evening Standard.
It is filled with contributions from Young Fabian members, although we occasionally accept contributions from non-members.
http://www.youngfabians.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=68&Itemid=41   (424 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Science/Nature Tackle consumption, urge Fabians
The government must tackle the political "taboo" of over-consumption if the majority of British people are to enjoy a better quality of life, said a report by the Fabian Society.
Some schools had improved and others had become worse since parents were given more freedom in where to send their children.
Michael Jacobs, general secretary of the Fabian Society and co-author of the report, told BBC News Online: "The argument for giving consumers what they want should be weighed up with the quality of life and sustainable development available to the rest of society."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3158537.stm   (396 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports The Young Fabians
The Young Fabians seek to encourage debate and political education amongst members and within the wider Labour movement.
The Young Fabians' initial statement of purpose was to avoid commitment to any one brand of socialism and to provide a "forum for different points of view within the left," a commitment which continues more than 40 years later.
It is the only thinktank run by and for young people.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/thinktanks/page/0,10538,677698,00.html   (474 words)

  
 Fabians' Bar & Restaurant - Parties - Weddings
Fabians' wants to be a part of your 'greatest celebration of all time'.
We know that your special day is a once in a lifetime, and Fabians' will be with you all the way?
We take great pride in our food and service, we feel it is second to none.
http://www.fabians.com/fabians/parties/weddings.html   (1099 words)

  
 Fabians urge Labour to back service sector
The Fabians' willingness to abandon socialist principles for free-market ideals will shock its supporters on the political Left but will be welcomed by those employed in the service sector, which now accounts for more than two-thirds of economic activity.
It calls for Labour to support out-of-town shopping centres because consumers like them and says that worries about the future of town centres should be dealt with as a separate issue by councils and retailers together.
THE Fabian Society has appealed to the government to abandon its traditional concern with industry and adopt a more positive approach towards the service sector, particularly retailing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/06/16/cfab16.html   (304 words)

  
 Australian Fabian Society: Information Pages: About Us Index
For more than half a century, we have been at the forefront of research into political ideas and public policy reform.
It has been "one of the most famous and successful agents of social change" in British political thought - and has had a profound impact on political thought in Australia.
Famous Australian Fabians include some of the great Prime Ministers and Political leaders of our country.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36332/20050502/fabian.org.au/about   (149 words)

  
 FABIans in Paris! - MYCOVIRUS RESEARCH AT FABI
Each of the FABIANS presented a poster about their work on the C.
The presence of plant virologists was significant too, with many working on different tombusviruses (like turnip crinkle virus).
http://www.up.ac.za/academic/fabi/tpcp/newsletters/archive/nov2001/page7.html   (531 words)

  
 recess monkey - Young Fabians
A Young Fabian is 31 or under, though we welcome anyone to attend our events, embassy ones especially.
Here's a message from the Young Fabians, a think-tank that masquerades as an opportunity for boys and girls to meet each other.
How very, very sad - where do I sign?
http://www.recessmonkey.com/index.php/2005/12/01/young_fabians   (266 words)

  
 While we're at reform... the Fabians' view - Business - Business - theage.com.au
Dr Gruen, chief executive of the consultancy Lateral Economics, who is addressing an Australian Fabians' conference in Melbourne, also says that in a world of increasing complexity, what happens by "default" matters, so "we should engineer socially beneficial defaults".
The prices achieved by real estate agents could be measured against their promises before the event — and published."
Skip directly to: Search Box, Section Navigation, Content.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/while-were-at-reform-the-fabians-view/2005/11/10/1131578171900.html   (511 words)

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