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Important Fabians includes [[George Bernard Shaw]], 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 1, 1969 }}</ref>

Important Fabians includes [[George Bernard Shaw]], 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 1, 1969 }}</ref>

The Fabians were influential in forming the ideas of the British [[Labour Party]]. They advocated the ideal of a scientifically planned society and supported the [[eugenics]] by way of sterilization.<ref name="FIORAZO2012"/>

The Fabians were influential in forming the ideas of the British [[Labour Party]]. They advocated the ideal of a scientifically planned society and supported the [[eugenics]] by way of sterilization.<ref name="FIORAZO2012"/> Practitioners of evolutionary socialism, Fabians reject the Marxist dogma found in [[Revolutionary socialism]].

==History==

==History==

==Ideology==

==Ideology==

===Evolutionary Socialism===

===Evolutionary Socialism===

Ideologically, Fabians are quite different than other brands of socialism.  Fabian socialists prefer evolutionary tactics over revolutionary tactics.  This is a direct rejection<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shaw|first1=G. Bernard|title=The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more|date=2015|quote=When we put our system before the English public there was not a single word about Karl Marx or any other foreign Socialist. From beginning to end Fabian Socialism was worked out on English lines with English thought, on English facts.}}</ref> of one of the most important parts of [[Marxism]].  This is seen with their choice of name; being named after Roman General Fabius, who preferred tactics of harassment and wearing down his enemies rather than directly engaging with them.  This is also seen in their choice of mascot: the tortoise.  One iteration of the Fabian tortoise contains the inscription ''When I strike, I strike hard''.  The Fabian preference for evolutionary socialism (achieving full socialism in multiple stages instead of one stage) is also reiterated in a summary<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qps14mSlghcC|title=Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century|date=2000|pages=942–943}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fy11AwAAQBAJ|title=Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice|date=2007|pages=541–543}}</ref> slogan which was coined by Sidney Webb: ''The Inevitability of Gradualness''.

Ideologically, Fabians are quite different than other brands of socialism.  Fabian socialists prefer evolutionary tactics over revolutionary tactics, and are the most prominent example.  This is a direct rejection<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shaw|first1=G. Bernard|title=The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more|date=2015|quote=When we put our system before the English public there was not a single word about Karl Marx or any other foreign Socialist. From beginning to end Fabian Socialism was worked out on English lines with English thought, on English facts.}}</ref> of one of the most important parts of [[Marxism]].  This is seen with their choice of name; being named after Roman General Fabius, who preferred tactics of harassment and wearing down his enemies rather than directly engaging with them.  This is also seen in their choice of mascot: the tortoise.  One iteration of the Fabian tortoise contains the inscription ''When I strike, I strike hard''.  The Fabian preference for evolutionary socialism (achieving full socialism in multiple stages instead of one stage) is also reiterated in a summary<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qps14mSlghcC|title=Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century|date=2000|pages=942–943}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fy11AwAAQBAJ|title=Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice|date=2007|pages=541–543}}</ref> slogan which was coined by Sidney Webb: ''The Inevitability of Gradualness''.

===Inevitability of Gradualness===

===Inevitability of Gradualness===