The Fabian Society was historically related to radicalism, a left-wing liberal tradition.
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13 Facts About Fabian socialist
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Fabian socialist Society was founded on 4 January 1884 in London as an offshoot of a society founded a year earlier, called The Fellowship of the New Life, which had been a forebear of the British Ethical and humanist movements.
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Fellowship of the New Life was dissolved in 1899, but the Fabian socialist Society grew to become a leading academic society in the United Kingdom in the Edwardian era.
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Fabian socialist Society was named—at the suggestion of Frank Podmore—in honour of the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus.
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Immediately upon its inception, the Fabian Society began attracting many prominent contemporary figures drawn to its socialist cause, including George Bernard Shaw, H G Wells, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Charles Marson, Sydney Olivier, Oliver Lodge, Ramsay MacDonald and Emmeline Pankhurst.
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Years 1903 to 1908 saw a growth in popular interest in the socialist idea in Great Britain and the Fabian Society grew accordingly, tripling its membership to nearly 2500 by the end of the period, half of whom were located in London.
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The Middle East adaptation of Fabian socialist socialism led the state to control big industry, transport, banks, internal and external trade.
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In October 1940, the Fabian socialist Society established the Fabian socialist Colonial Bureau to facilitate research and debate British colonial policy.
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In recent years the Young Fabian socialist group, founded in 1960, has become an important networking and discussion organisation for younger Labour Party activists and played a role in the 1994 election of Tony Blair as Labour Leader.
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Fabian socialist Society have a number of employees based in their headquarters in London.
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Fabian socialist later parodied the society in his 1910 novel The New Machiavelli.
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Fabian socialist wrote that their published works "serve merely to explain to the Fabians themselves why Fabianism exists in the world".
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