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Immediately upon its inception, the Fabian Society began attracting many prominent contemporary figures drawn to its socialist cause, including George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Charles Marson, Sydney Olivier, Oliver Lodge, Ramsay MacDonald and Emmeline Pankhurst.
- FS
- London, England
- 4 January 1884; 139 years ago
- 8,000
Joan Beauchamp. Hubert Beaumont (Labour politician) John Bellerby. William Bennett (English politician) Ruth Cavendish Bentinck. Annie Besant. Patrick Blackett. Tony Blair. G. R. Blanco White.
The Fabian Society was founded on 4th January 1884 as 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.
The name Fabian derives from Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the Roman general famous for his delaying tactics against Hannibal during the Second Punic War. The early Fabians rejected the revolutionary doctrines of Marxism , recommending instead a gradual transition to a socialist society.
Early Fabian economic theory was developed in great measure under the influence of John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy (1848), and his famous essay On Liberty (1859) helped shape the basic tenets of Fabian socialism. Another significant influence was the American economist Henry George (1839-1897). Emulating George, the Fabians ...
22. Apr. 2024 · 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 Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary means. It is best known for its initial ground-breaking work beginning in the late nineteenth century and then up to World War I.
