Fabian constitutionalism
The Fabian Society is perfectly constitutional in its attitude, and its methods are those usual in political life in England.
The Fabian Society accepts the conditions imposed on it by human nature and by the national character and political circumstances of the English people It sympathises with the ordinary man’s preference for gradual, peaceful changes, to revolution, conflict with the army and police, and martyrdom.
It recognises the fact that Social-Democracy is not the whole of the working-class programme, and that every separate measure towards the socialisation of industry will have to compete for precedence with numbers of other reforms. It therefore does not believe that the moment will ever come when the whole of Socialism will be staked on the issue of a single General Election or a single Bill in the House of Commons as between the proletariat on one side and the proprietariat on the other. Each instalment of Social-Democracy will only be a measure among other measures, and will have to be kept to the front by an energetic Fabian section of the working-class party. The Fabian Society therefore begs those Socialists who are looking forward to a sensational historical crisis to join some other Society.
Recent Entries
- British section
- The split in the feench section
- Parliamentary Socialist and Bourgeois Radical Congress
- German Social Democratic Reichstag fraction
- Dutch report, socialist league
- United States of America
- Switzerland
- Report on Fabian Policy
- Fabian democracy
- Fabian constitutionalism