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Fabian Society   /fˈeɪbiən səsˈaɪəti/   Listen
Fabian Society

noun
1.
An association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism.





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... revolutionists by finding quite rational arguments for them, he surprised them unpleasantly also by discovering something else. He discovered a turn of argument or trick of thought which has ever since been the plague of their lives, and given him in all assemblies of their kind, in the Fabian Society or in the whole Socialist movement, a fantastic but most formidable domination. This method may be approximately defined as that of revolutionising the revolutionists by turning their rationalism against their remaining sentimentalism. But definition leaves the ...
— George Bernard Shaw • Gilbert K. Chesterton


Words linked to "Fabian Society" :   First Baron Passfield, association, Sidney James Webb, Sidney Webb, fabian, Webb


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