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The Fabian 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.
The Fabian Society was founded on 4th January 1884 as an off-shoot of the Fellowship of the New Life. The new Society soon attracted some of the most prominent left-wing thinkers of the late Victorian era to its ranks.
Jun 5, 2024 · Fabian Society, socialist society founded in 1884 in London, having as its goal the establishment of a democratic socialist state in Great Britain. The Fabians put their faith in evolutionary socialism rather than in revolution.
Hyndman was also the founder in 1881 of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) (Laidler, p. 186). The elements responsible for founding the Fabian Society were themselves influenced by Marxism and belonged to Social Democratic Federation circles.
In 1884 The Fabian Society was founded in England with the aim of bringing about a socialist society by means of intellectual debate, the publication of books and pamphlets, and the "permeation" of socialist ideas into the universities, the press, government institutions, and political parties.
The early Fabians’ commitment to non-violent political change was underlined by the role the Fabian Society played in the foundation of the Labour party in 1900. The society is the only original founder of Labour party that remains affiliated to the present day in unchanged form.
Bland was a co-founder of the Fabian Society in 1884 and became a member of its executive and its long-serving treasurer.
