The Liverpool Fabian Society, while agreeing in the main wi th the policy of the London Society, as set forth in a pamphlet for the information of the Congress, is of opinion that the clause headed ” b’abian Electoral Tactics” does not faithfully describe the policy of Fabians as a whole. The Liverpool Society has, [...]

Democracy, as understood by the Fabian Society, means simply the control of the administration by freely elected representatives of the people.
The Fabian Society energetically repudiates all conceptions of Democracy as a system by which the technical work of government, such as legislation, administration, and the appointment of public officials, shall be carried on by referendum [...]

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 [...]

The Fabian Society, far from holding aloof from other bodies, urges its members to lose no opportunity of joining them and permeating them with Fabian ideas as far as possible.
Almost all organisations and movements contain elements making for Socialism, no matter how remote the sympathies and intentions of their founders may be from those of [...]

The Fabian Society does not claim to be the people of England, or even the -Socialist party, and therefore does not seek direct political representation by putting forward Fabian candidates at elections. But it loses no opportunity of influencing elections and inducing constituencies to select Socialists as their candidates.
No person, however, can obtain the support [...]

I.—THE MISSION OK THE FABIANS. The object of the Fabian Society is to persuade the English people to make their political constitution thoroughly democratic and to socialise their industries sufficiently to make the livelihood of the people entirely independent of private Capitalism.
II. —FABIAN INTEGRITY.
The Fabian Society endeavours to pursue its Socialist and Democratic objects with [...]

The Independent Labour Party as a national organisation was founded in January, 1893.
For some time previously the numbers of unemployed workmen had been rapidly increasing, wages in all industries had declined, and old age found one half of the industrial population in such an abject state of destitution that no resource was left to them [...]

The Fabian Society discards such phrases as “the abolition of the wage system,” which can only mislead the public as to the aims of Socialism. Socialism does not involve the abolition of wages, but the establishment of standard allowances for the maintenance of all workers by the community in its own service, as an alternative [...]

The Fabian Society endeavours to rouse social compunction by making the public conscious of the evil condition of society under the present systeim This it does by the collection and publication of authentic and impartial statistical tracts, compiled, not from the works of Socialists, but from official sources. The first volume of Karl Marx’s ” [...]

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 [...]