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Statement of intent
The Fabian Society is generally regarded as a derivative of a group "Fellowship of the New Life",<ref name="McBriar" /> though there is some disagreement about this.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Britain|first1=Ian|title=Fabianism and Culture: A Study in British Socialism and the Arts C1884-1918|date=2005|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]}}</ref> The Society derives its name from [[Fabius Maximus]], a [[Roman]] general known for his delaying tactics. This was at the suggestion of Frank Podmore.<ref name="Pease" /><ref>Podmore wrote: "For the right moment you must wait, as Fabius did most patiently, when warring against Hannibal, though many censured his delays; but when the time comes you must strike hard, as Fabius did, or your waiting will be in vain, and fruitless"</ref>
The Fabian Society is generally regarded as a derivative of a group "Fellowship of the New Life",<ref name="McBriar" /> though there is some disagreement about this.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Britain|first1=Ian|title=Fabianism and Culture: A Study in British Socialism and the Arts C1884-1918|date=2005|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]}}</ref> The Society derives its name from [[Fabius Maximus]], a [[Roman]] general known for his delaying tactics. This was at the suggestion of Frank Podmore.<ref name="Pease" /><ref>Podmore wrote: "For the right moment you must wait, as Fabius did most patiently, when warring against Hannibal, though many censured his delays; but when the time comes you must strike hard, as Fabius did, or your waiting will be in vain, and fruitless"</ref>
Early on, the Fabians were explicit with their goals. They wrote:
<blockquote>The Fabian Society aims at the reorganization of Society by the emancipation of Land and industrial Capital from individual and class ownership, and the vesting of them in the community for the general benefit. In this way only can the natural and acquired advantages of the country be equitably shared by the whole people.<br />
The Society accordingly works for the extinction of private property in land and of the consequent individual appropriation, in the form of Rent, of the price paid for permission to use the earth, as well as for the advantages of superior soils and sites.<ref>[http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/shaw-fabian-essays-in-socialism George Bernard Shaw, Fabian Essays in Socialism], 1889</ref></blockquote>
==Ideology==
==Ideology==