Fabian Society

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The Fabian Society is a British socialist organization founded in the late 19th century that advocates for gradual and democratic reforms toward socialism rather than revolutionary change.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf political society
socialist organization
think tank
advocates gradual social change GENERATED
state intervention in the economy GENERATED
use of democratic institutions GENERATED
welfare state expansion GENERATED
affiliatedWith Labour Party (UK) GENERATED
country United Kingdom
fieldOfWork economics GENERATED
politics GENERATED
social policy GENERATED
focus political education GENERATED
public policy research GENERATED
social reform GENERATED
founded 1884 GENERATED
foundedBy Beatrice Webb GENERATED
Edward R. Pease GENERATED
George Bernard Shaw GENERATED
Graham Wallas GENERATED
Sidney Webb GENERATED
hasWing Young Fabians GENERATED
ideology democratic socialism GENERATED
social democracy GENERATED
socialism GENERATED
influenced British social democracy GENERATED
Labour Party (UK) GENERATED
welfare state policies in the United Kingdom GENERATED
language English GENERATED
legalForm membership organization GENERATED
location London GENERATED
motto For the right moment you must wait, as Fabius did most patiently GENERATED
namedAfter Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus GENERATED
notableMember Annie Besant GENERATED
Beatrice Webb GENERATED
Clement Attlee GENERATED
George Bernard Shaw GENERATED
H. G. Wells GENERATED
Ramsay MacDonald GENERATED
Sidney Webb GENERATED
opposes revolutionary socialism GENERATED
politicalPosition centre-left GENERATED
left-wing GENERATED
publication Fabian Review GENERATED
Fabian pamphlets GENERATED
strategy gradualist approach to socialism GENERATED
parliamentary road to socialism GENERATED
reformist politics GENERATED

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Leonard Woolf affiliation Fabian Society
New Statesman foundedBy Fabian Society
Annie Besant memberOf Fabian Society
George Bernard Shaw memberOf Fabian Society
Herbert George Wells memberOf Fabian Society
R. H. Tawney memberOf Fabian Society
George Bernard Shaw movement Fabian Society