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The name “Fabian” comes symbolically from the man who in Rome was named Fabius Cunctator, the Delayer, who used to advocate, the Larousse Universel in one of its last uncensored editions of the fifties reminds us, in evoking the Fabian Societies: “a slow and progressive tactic”, instead of direct attack.
This type of socialist movement was born within the Marxist movements, resulting from the meetings and seminars between academics and intellectuals, between March 1883 and 1889.
Harry W Laidler, one of the rare historians of the “set”, writes in 1968, in his History of Socialism (which appeared in New York) that the first group was officially founded in England on the 4 January 1884. George Bernard Shaw published as early as 1889 one of the first books stemming from these seminars, under the title of “Fabian Essays on Socialism”. Around him were already hovering Sidney and Beatrice Webb (future apologists of the USSR in 1936), Annie Besant, Eleanor Marx (one of Marx’s daughters) who left shortly for the United States to establish identical groups, etc. In exile in London in 1890, Edouard Bernstein became the main mover and shaker in the Fabian cells at the heart of the German social democracy. Others scattered to Hamburg, Brussels, Rome, and Paris. However their semi-secret work did not appear until after the 1919-1922 period, yet without ever using publicly the term “Fabian”. It is thus that Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the Pan European Movement in Vienna, and various research groups in France, such as Crise-X and other Committees of Economic, Humanist and Diplomatic Studies etc, were in fact the vehicles for the Fabian ideals and objectives. In their wake, the majority of movements with an internationalist, socialist calling, born in the thirties, and especially after 1945 were, if not created by, at least totally infiltrated and influenced by the Fabians. Thus before 1939 the group of Coutrot, ex-student of the Paris polytechnic, or in the USA, the League for an Industrial Democracy, and after 1945 the Bilderberg Conference, Pugwash, the Aspen Institute, the Club of Rome, the world-wide Federalist Movement. Twins born in 1919-1920: the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) in London, and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, are purely and simply Fabian children.
Here is what the Fabian, Harry Laidler wrote as far back as 1919: “The Fabian socialism considers that the (inescapable) transition from capitalism towards socialism should be effected gradually. It foresees the socialisation of industry by means of well-controlled political and economic agencies; the middle classes are the best means of introducing and developing the technique of an administration intended for a new social order...”
The English professor G.D.H. Cole, who became president of the Fabian Society in 1941, himself, stressed that all forms of socialism should be sustained and used towards the objectives planned throughout the world “both the social-democratic parties, Labour Party members and others in Europe and in the New World, and communism in Russia, or other minority groups elsewhere, since there is no difference in their objectives, only in their methods.”
The power of the Fabians has come from a slow and patient progression. Since their very first meetings they decided that since the world was entering the industrial era, they had to cell in the future framework of the States, in public and private administration, in factories and businesses. And thus to prepare the managerial staff of the parties, governments, international organisations, etc.
In Great Britain, the Labour Party (like its splinter-group in 1993, the Social Democratic Party led by Shirley Williams) are Fabian creations, the Labour Party members Aneurin Bevan, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey etc. as well as the “fascist” Oswald Mosley, were or are Fabians. The London School of Economics is a Fabian creation.
Since the forties, the International socialist used an apparatus through which 70% of the ruling members were cast in the same mould. Daniel Meyer, like half of the members of the Mitterrand team, after 1981, came out of that. Likewise the American economist J.K. Galbraith, and the majority of the movers and shakers of the foreign Political Institutes or foreign Centres of Political Studies currently at work in Europe, North and South America and the Commonwealth States. Of course, the “thinkers” who surround David Rockefeller in the Trilateral Commission, as yesterday the leaders of the Monnet Committee, are Fabians.
We are making use of information drawn directly from the archives of the Fabian Society, and from the schools and universities where the Fabian professors are charged with recruiting disciples.