George Bernard Shaw, his life and works; a critical biography (authorized) . nce and scientificiconoclasm, bowing to the fetishism neither of George nor ofMarx. Towards Marx and Lassalle, some of whose views mustnow be discarded as erroneous or obsolete, the Fabian Societyinsists on the necessity of maintaining as critical an attitudeas these eminent Socialists themselves maintained towards theirpredecessors St. Simon and Robert Owen. In origin anarchisticand revolutionary as could be desired, in spirit the Fabiansremain anarchistic and revolutionary. In principle avowedlyorderly and constitut
George Bernard Shaw, his life and works; a critical biography (authorized) . nce and scientificiconoclasm, bowing to the fetishism neither of George nor ofMarx. Towards Marx and Lassalle, some of whose views mustnow be discarded as erroneous or obsolete, the Fabian Societyinsists on the necessity of maintaining as critical an attitudeas these eminent Socialists themselves maintained towards theirpredecessors St. Simon and Robert Owen. In origin anarchisticand revolutionary as could be desired, in spirit the Fabiansremain anarchistic and revolutionary. In principle avowedlyorderly and constitutional, in policy frankly opportunist, inpractice strictly scientific and economic, the Fabians may becalled the realists of the Socialist movement. They have ruth-lessly snatched the masks from the faces of the Utopian * This book has now gone into its seventieth thousand, and has been re-published in both Germany and America. It is regarded to-day as thestandard text in English for Socialist lecturers and propagandists. 178 EDITED BY ©. BERNARD SHAW. PRICE ONE Essays by C. Bernard Shaw, Sydney Olivier, ,Hubert Bland. Sidney Webb, Annie Besant, C. Wallas. Facsimile of Coveh Design of Fabian Essays (1890). GEORGE BERNARD SHAW dreamers and romancers.* While the rank and file of the S. D. F. have been the very good friends of the Fabians,the radical differences in their respective policies have precludedall possibility of amalgamation. As succinctly stated by Shaw: The Fabian Society is a society for helping to bring aboutthe socialization of the industrial resources of the Social-Democratic Federation is a society for enlisting thewhole proletariat of the country in its own ranks and itselfsocializing the national industry. The policy of the one isfundamentally opportunist; of the other, implacably Federation counts no man a Socialist until he has joined it,and supports no man who is not a member; the Fabians adviseconcentration of s
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