Fabians and the middle class
In view of the fact that the Socialist movement has been hitherto inspired, instructed, led, and suffered for by members of the middle class or ” burgeoisie,” the Fabian Society, though not at all surprised to find these middle-class leaders attacking with much bitterness the narrow social ideals current in their Own class, protests against the absurdity of Socialists representing the very class from which Socialism has sprung as specially hostile to it. The Fabian Society has no romantic illusions as to the freedom of the proletariat from these same narrow ideals.
Like all other Socialist societies, it can only educate the people in Socialism by making them conversant with the conclusions of the most enlightened members of the middle classes and their pupils. The Fabian Society therefore cannot reasonably use the words ‘”burgeois or “middle class” as terms of reproach, more especially as it would thereby condemn a large proportion of its own members.
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