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Exclusivity
'''Fabian socialism''' is a type of [[socialism]] founded in 1884 in Britain. It sought use of the democratic framework to achieve gradual conversion to socialism. This approach originated from the movement for utopian socialism. Its nine<ref name="Story"/> founding members were Frank Podmore, Edward R. Pease, William Clarke, Hubert Bland,<ref name="McBriar">{{cite book|last1=McBriar|first1=Alan M.|title=Fabian Socialism and English Politics, 1884-1918|date=1962|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]}}</ref> Percival Chubb, Frederick Keddell,<ref name="Story">{{cite book|last1=Cole|first1=Margaret|title=The Story of Fabian Socialism|date=1961|publisher=[[Stanford University]] Press|isbn=978-1163700105}}</ref> Henry Hyde Champion,<ref name="Pease">{{cite book|last1=Pease|first1=Edward R.|title=The History of the Fabian Society|date=1916}}</ref>[[E. Nesbit|Edith Nesbit]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Matthews|first1=Race|title=Australia's First Fabians: Middle-class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement|date=1993|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]}}</ref> and Rosamund Dale Owen.<ref name="McBriar"/><ref name="Story"/> Havelock Ellis is sometimes also mentioned as a tenth founding member, though there is some question about this.<ref name="Story" />
'''Fabian socialism''' is a type of [[socialism]] founded in 1884 in Britain. It sought use of the democratic framework to achieve gradual conversion to socialism. This approach originated from the movement for utopian socialism. Its nine<ref name="Story"/> founding members were Frank Podmore, Edward R. Pease, William Clarke, Hubert Bland,<ref name="McBriar">{{cite book|last1=McBriar|first1=Alan M.|title=Fabian Socialism and English Politics, 1884-1918|date=1962|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]}}</ref> Percival Chubb, Frederick Keddell,<ref name="Story">{{cite book|last1=Cole|first1=Margaret|title=The Story of Fabian Socialism|date=1961|publisher=[[Stanford University]] Press|isbn=978-1163700105}}</ref> Henry Hyde Champion,<ref name="Pease">{{cite book|last1=Pease|first1=Edward R.|title=The History of the Fabian Society|date=1916}}</ref>[[E. Nesbit|Edith Nesbit]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Matthews|first1=Race|title=Australia's First Fabians: Middle-class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement|date=1993|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]}}</ref> and Rosamund Dale Owen.<ref name="McBriar"/><ref name="Story"/> Havelock Ellis is sometimes also mentioned as a tenth founding member, though there is some question about this.<ref name="Story" />
Important Fabians includes Beatrice and Sidney Webb, [[Annie Besant]], and [[Bertrand Russell]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carson |first1=Clarence B. |url=http://fee.org/freeman/detail/the-rise-and-fall-of-england-11-the-fabian-thrust-to-socialism |title=The Rise and Fall of England: 11. The Fabian Thrust to Socialism |work=[[The Freeman]] |date=January 01, 1969 }}</ref>.
Important Fabians includes Beatrice and Sidney Webb, [[Annie Besant]], and [[Bertrand Russell]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carson |first1=Clarence B. |url=http://fee.org/freeman/detail/the-rise-and-fall-of-england-11-the-fabian-thrust-to-socialism |title=The Rise and Fall of England: 11. The Fabian Thrust to Socialism |work=[[The Freeman]] |date=January 01, 1969 }}</ref>
The Fabians were influential in forming the ideas of the British [[Labour Party]].
The Fabians were influential in forming the ideas of the British [[Labour Party]].
===Permeation===
===Permeation===
Permeation is another ideological trait of Fabianism.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a56hc3uASjoC&pg=PA114|last1=Miller|first1=Elizabeth|title=Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture|date=2013|publisher=[[Stanford University]] Press|pages=113-115}}</ref>
Permeation is another ideological trait of Fabianism.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a56hc3uASjoC&pg=PA114|last1=Miller|first1=Elizabeth|title=Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture|date=2013|publisher=[[Stanford University]] Press|pages=113-115}}</ref>
===Exclusivity===
Along with their viewpoint of evolutionary socialism, the Society's exclusivity is the second of two major disagreements with Marxist ideology. The [[Dictatorship of the proletariat]] is a major part of Marxism and pretty much any "worker" can join and be a part of "the cause", but Fabians are highly exclusive. In examining their early membership: Shaw, the Webbs, Pease, Podmore, etc etc, they were all members of high society, well off, and highly educated. Shaw, Besant, Nesbit and others were all authors and academics and the Webbs were intellectuals. Others, like Hubert Bland were born into well-off families. Edward Pease noted that "W.L. Phillips, a house-painter, at that time the only "genuine working man" in our ranks."
This exclusivity caused some consternation among the early Fabians with [[H. G. Wells]] publishing "Faults of the Fabian".<ref name="Pease" />
Since its inception, the Young Fabians generally target college-educated youth.
For the reasons of Fabian exclusivity, some Marxists look upon Fabians as being members of the proletarian class.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Trotsky |first1=Leon |url=https://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/trotsky/works/britain/ch04.htm |title= The Fabian 'theory' of socialism |work=Marxists.org |quote=In the top layers of the Labour Party, a certain number of Fabian intellectuals and liberals who have joined out of despair, but in the first place it is to be firmly hoped that workers will sooner or later sweep this dross out, and in the second place the four-and-a-half million votes which are cast for the Labour Party are already today (with minor exceptions) the votes of British workers. As yet by no means all workers vote for their party. But it is almost solely workers who do vote for the Labour Party. By this we do not at all mean that the Fabians, the ILPers and the Liberal defectors exert no influence on the working class. On the contrary, their influence is very great but it is not fixed. The reformists who are fighting against a proletarian class consciousness are, in the final reckoning, a tool of the ruling class. Throughout the whole history of the British Labour movement there has been pressure by the bourgeoisie upon the proletariat through the agency of radicals, intellectuals, drawing-room and church socialists and Owenites who reject the class struggle and advocate the principle of social solidarity, preach collaboration with the bourgeoisie, bridle, enfeeble and politically debase the proletariat. }}</ref>
==London School of Economics==
==London School of Economics==