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The Fabian Society founded the London School of Economics in 1895. Today, the society functions primarily as a think tank and is one of twenty socialist societies affiliated with the Labour Party. Similar societies exist in Australia, in Canada, in New Zealand, and in Sicily.
Fabian Society, socialist society founded in 1884 in London, having as its goal the establishment of a democratic socialist state in Great Britain. The Fabians put their faith in evolutionary socialism rather than in revolution. (Read George Bernard Shaw’s 1926 Britannica essay on socialism.) The
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Fabians, who sought to propagate their ideas by means of what they called “ permeation,” targeted collectivist liberal politicians and radical social activists. Two pioneers of Fabian theory— Shaw and Sidney Webb —were each advocates of the strategy of permeation.
The Fabian Society, established in London in 1884, aimed to promote a moral reconstruction of British society according to socialist principles and level the gulf between the rich and the poor. Fabians, unlike Marxists, advocated a gradual, non-revolutionary transition to socialism based on humanist foundations. Origin of the Name.
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- The Early Fabians: “Educate, Agitate, Organise”
- The London School of Economics & The New Statesman
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The Fabian Society derives its name from the Roman general Quintus Fabius, known for his strategy of delaying his attacks on the invading Carthaginians until the right moment. The name Fabian Society was explained in the first Fabian pamphlet which carried the note:
The Fabian Society was founded on 4th January 1884as an off-shoot of the Fellowship of the New Life. The new Society soon attracted some of the most prominent left-wing thinkers of the late Victorian era to its ranks. The 1880s saw an upsurge in socialist activity in Britain and the Fabian Society was at the heart of much of it. Against the backdro...
Two other abiding contributions of the Webbs that persist until the present day are the New Statesman magazine and the London School of Economics. The London School of Economics, today one of the most pre-eminent universities in the world, began far more humbly. A bequest of £20,000 left by Derby Fabian Henry Hutchinson to the Society for “propagan...
As the electoral significance of the Labour Party grew in the inter-war period, the contribution of the society kept pace. In 1923, over twenty Fabians were elected to parliament, with five Fabians in Ramsay MacDonald’s first Labour cabinet. Future prime minister and Fabian Clement Attleereceived his first ministerial post at this time. The society...
229 Fabian Society members were elected to Parliament in the 1945 Labour landslide, with many of them ministers in the Attlee administration. But the Fabian contribution to Attlee’s reforming programme of 1945-51 had begun much earlier. The Labour manifesto Let us Face the Futurehad been written by Fabian Michael Young. Many of the pioneering refor...
The Fabian Society, like all organisations on the left, was rocked by the post-1979 Labour disputes. The chair of the society, and former general secretary, Shirley Williams became one of the founding members of the SDP and the defection of a number of executive committee members challenged the long-standing affiliation of the Fabian Society to the...
In the 1990s the society came to be a major force in the modernisation of the Labour party, building on its work from the 1980s and developing many of the ideas that would come to characterise New Labour. A New Constitution for the Labour Party was instrumental in the introduction of “one member, one vote” to party elections and contained the origi...
The fall of the Labour government and the election of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in 2010 marked a new era for the society. During the 2010-2015 parliament Labour was led by Ed Miliband,a prominent member of the society, and the Fabians played their traditional role of feeding new ideas into the party, completing major po...
Fabianism refers especially to a particular position within British socialism, originally espoused by Sidney and Beatrice Webb and George Bernard Shaw, three of the most prominent early Fabians.
FABIANS. The Fabian Society, Britain's most durable socialist organization, an offshoot of the utopian Fellowship of the New Life, was launched by Edward Reynolds Pease (1857–1955) and Frank Podmore (1856–1910) in January 1884.
