Brian Gerrish - Annie Besant - Lee Kuan Yew - G Edward Grifin - Edward R Pease - David M Hart - Green & Pleasant online -
The Fabians to most people are a debating society, and they do debate all sort of things, but behind the facade is a very nasty organisation. Its emblem is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s got another one which is of men hammering the world into shape. And their effective technique is that they are going to change us, but they are going to do it so slowly we won’t know it’s happening ... He [Tony Blair] was a chairman of the Fabian Society. Brian Gerrish, State of the Nation
Their actual logo is a wolf in sheep’s clothing! Fabians, from Fabia Maximus, a Roman general who won his battles by guerrilla tactics. Brian Gerrish, Alternative View II conference
A democratic Socialism, controlled by majority votes, guided by numbers, can never succeed; a truly aristocratic Socialism, controlled by duty, guided by wisdom, is the next step upwards in civilisation. Annie Besant
They [Fabian Socialists] were going to create a just society for the British workers – the beginning of a welfare state, cheap council housing, free medicine and dental treatment, free spectacles, generous unemployment benefits. Of course, for students from the colonies, like Singapore and Malaya, it was a great attraction as the alternative to communism. We did not see until the 1970s that that was the beginning of big problems contributing to the inevitable decline of the British economy. Lee Kuan Yew, first prime minister of Singapore
The Fabians originally were an elite group of intellectuals who formed a semi-secret society for the purpose of bringing socialism to the world. Whereas communists wanted to establish socialism quickly through violence and revolution, the Fabians preferred to do it slowly through propaganda and legislation. The word socialism was not to be used. Instead, they would speak of benefits for the people such as welfare, medical care, higher wages, and better working conditions. In this way, they planned to accomplish their objective without bloodshed and even without serious opposition. They scorned the communists, not because they disliked their goals, but because they disagreed with their methods. To emphasize the importance of gradualism, they adopted the turtle as the symbol of their movement. The three most prominent leaders in the early days were Sidney and Beatrice Webb and George Bernard Shaw. A stained-glass window from the Beatrice Webb House in Surrey, England is especially enlightening. G Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island
We have a festering mass of human wretchedness in all our great towns, which is the natural hotbed of such anarchical movements: all the great continental countries are full of this explosive material. Can we depend on our country keeping free from the infection when we have far more poverty in our midst than the neighbouring European States? Edward R Pease, The History of the Fabian Society
The Fabian Society has been enormously influential in British and Australian politics over the past 120 years: it used a bequest to found the London School of Economics in 1895 (it is rather ironic then that this is where Friedrich Hayek taught from 1931 to 1950), it joined with the trade unions to found the British Labour Party in 1900, it founded the magazine the New Statesman in 1913, it laid the intellectual foundations for the creation of the welfare state after the Second World War (over 220 Labour MPs elected in the landslide victory of 1945 were members of the Fabian Society), and it was important in the revitalisation of the Labour Party in the 1990s by publishing Tony Blair’s pamphlet on the Third Way. David M Hart 2003
An organisation that has supplied every Labour prime minister in history. Currently has 141 MPs in parliament, and more than half the Cabinet … It’s literally on their website, and they’re proud of it. Green & Pleasant online, ‘Fabian Society: Pawn’, Youtube 2026
They wanted power. Within 16 years they helped found the Labour Representation Committee which became the Labour Party. ibid.
Three logos: threatening, honest and then bland. ibid.
‘Fabian Society, socialist society founded in 1884 in London, and having as its goal the establishment of a democratic socialist state in Great Britain. The Fabians put their faith in evolutionary socialism rather than in revolution’. ibid. Shaw 1926 essay
Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie: The Fabians: The Inevitability of Gradualness. ibid.
Julian Huxley: Evolutionary Humanism. ibid.
‘We permeated the party organizations and pulled all the wires we could lay our hands on with our utmost adroitness and energy’. ibid. Shaw
Keir Starmer MP, Fabian Ideas No. 657, The Road Ahead. ibid.
The Fabian wing of Labour was fundamentally at war with the Corbyn Left. ibid.
1910 Shaw lectures the Eugenics Education Society reported in the the Daily Express, 4th March. ibid.
‘But the ungovernables, the ferocious, the conscienceless, the idiots, the self-centered myops and morons, what of them? Do not punish them. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill them’. ibid. Shaw writing
‘To this you have got to add the ugly fact that most middle-class Socialists, while theoretically pining for a class-less society, cling like glue to their miserable fragments of social prestige’. ibid. Orwell
‘Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles’. ibid. Orwell