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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.
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- London, England
- 4 January 1884; 139 years ago
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A. Mark Abrams. Michel Aflaq. Percy Alden. Clifford Allen, 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood. Kingsley Amis. Robert Wherry Anderson. Ambrose Appelbe. Dorothy Archibald. Clement Attlee. Obafemi Awolowo. B. Vera Baird. Sidney Ball. Brian Barker (journalist) Noah Barou. Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke. Joan Beauchamp. Hubert Beaumont (Labour politician)
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.
This is a list of Fabian Tracts of The Fabian Society published up to the end of 1915. It is extracted from Edward R. Pease's history of the society published in 1916. Pease was a founding member of the society. A great number of additional tracts and other series of Fabian books have since been published.
NumberTitlePagesAuthor1Why are the Many Poor?4W.L. Phillips2A Manifesto43To Provident Landlords and Capitalists: A ...44What Socialism Is12Charlotte M. Wilson and others1. März 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.)
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Fabianism became prominent in British socialist theory in the 1880s. The name Fabian derives from Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the Roman general famous for his delaying tactics against Hannibal during the Second Punic War.
LSE Library. Sidney Webb (1859–1947) was an early member of the Fabian Society, playing a crucial role in shaping its development. He was a prominent socialist and contributed to the influential Fabian Essays in Socialism. Beatrice Potter (who became Beatrice Webb; 1858–1943) read the collection and was impressed by Sidney.