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Fabian Society

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Fabian Society

UK socialist organization promoting research, discussion, and publication, founded in London in 1884. Its name is derived from the Roman commander Fabius Maximus, and refers to the evolutionary methods by which it hoped to attain socialism by a succession of gradual reforms. Early members included the playwright George Bernard Shaw and Beatrice and Sidney Webb. The society helped to found the Labour Representation Committee in 1900, which became the Labour Party in 1906. The Society has remained influential in Labour Party circles as a forum for new ideas and critical assessment, and all Labour prime ministers have been members of it, most recently Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.



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Grigg trumpeted Wells' joining the Fabian Society to further this tenuous link to Marxism, yet conveniently failed to point out that Wells had resigned from the society by 1908 after a failed coup against the Fabian "old guard" of the Webbs and George Bernard Shaw.
Reshaping H.G. Wells. (Letters to the Editor) by The New American
A Report, drafted by George Bernard Shaw, for example, announced that the Fabian Society u nderstands "democracy .
REPUBLICANISM, SOCIALISM, AND DEMOCRACY IN BRITAIN: THE ORIGINS OF ... by Bevir, Mark / Journal of Social History
For a long time I thought the ITT-Progressive game was a unique institution on the Left, but I've learned that Britain's Fabian Society plays an annual cricket match against the leftist New Statesman & Society.
Troubled Times by Knoll, Erwin / The Progressive
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