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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>
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==="Privileged few" membership===
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 and upper class. 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."
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 and upper class. 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."