<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/86b65c13-0dca-44bd-98c2-5852cbb7108f/B15C3543-2B4D-4349-94B7-B745B6F79DA4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/fabian.htm" href="http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/fabian.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">cepa.newschool.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/fabian.htm"><P>The British counterpart of the German <A href="http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/marxian.htm">Marxian revisionists</A> and heavily influenced by the <A href="http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/enghist.htm">English Historical</A> school, the upper-middle-class intellectual group - the "Fabian Society" - emerged in 1884 as a strand of latter-day <A href="http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/utopia.htm">utopian socialism</A>. They became known to the public firstly through Sidney <A href="http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/../profiles/webb.htm">Webb's</A> <I>Facts for Socialists</I> (1884) and then through the famous <I>Fabian Essays in Socialism</I> (1889) written by the Webbs, Shaw, and others. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/fabian.htm"><P>The "Fabians" were named after Fabius, the famous Roman general which opposed Hannibal as they were "biding their time" until they would "strike hard".  Exactly when this strike would occur was a perennial question.   Eschewing the revolutionary tactics of more orthodox <A href="http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/marxian.htm">Marxians</A>, the middle-class Fabians were more directly involved with politics and practical gains - through contacts not only in the "International Labor Party", trade unions and cooperative movements but also throughout the entire British political apparatus (Liberals and Tories included). </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B15C3543-2B4D-4349-94B7-B745B6F79DA4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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