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THE FABIAN
SOCIETY
On October 24, 1883, in London, a group of 17 wealthy Socialists
gathered to discuss a 'Fellowship of the New Life,' which was based on
the writings of scholar Thomas Davidson, who hoped to start some sort of
monastic order. The group included: George Bernard Shaw (1864-1926), a
free-thinking Marxist-atheist writer whose plays contained socialistic
references, an ideology he pursued after hearing a speech by American
economist Henry George in 1882, and reading Marx's Das Kapital; Graham
Wallas, a classical scholar; Sidney James Webb (1859-1947), a civil
servant who was the most influential socialist in the country; Edward
Pease; Havelock Ellis; Frank Podmore; Annie Besant; John Galsworthy; R.
H. Tawney; G. D. H. Cole; Harold Laski; Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), a
Jewish playwright and novelist, who in 1910, wrote the play The Melting
Pot, which was a propaganda play showing how Americans discriminated
against Blacks and Jews; and Israel Cohen, a Jewish writer. Some of
these people were also members of the Society for Physical Research, an
organization dedicated to spiritualism research, which was founded in
1882.
Sidney Webb later founded the London School of Economics in 1895, which
became a branch of the University of London. Among its major
contributors: the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie United Kingdom
Trust, and Mrs. Ernest Elmhirst, the widow of J. P. Morgan partner
Willard Straight, who founded the socialist magazine New Republic. In
1912, Webb established an independent journal called The New Statesman,
and later became a leader in the Labor Party, writing Labor and the
Social Order in 1918. He held several political offices, and was a
disciple of John Stuart Mill, who served as the Secretary of the British
East India Company.
On November 7, 1883, this group met to discuss the establishment of an
organization "whose ultimate aim shall be the reconstruction of Society
in accordance with the highest moral possibilities." However, they split
into two factions, and on January 4, 1884, one of the factions
established a group known as the Fabian Society. On January 25th, one
member, J. G. Stapleton, delivered their first lecture, called "Social
Conditions in England, With a View to Social Reconstruction or
Development." At a time when there were 30,000 Socialist voters, after a
few weeks, they only had 20 members.
In April, 1884, their first publication was distributed, a four-page
pamphlet called Why Are We Poor? In May, journalist George Bernard Shaw
(who would win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925) joined, and soon
became the leading figure of the Fabians. In March, 1885, Sidney Webb,
then a clerk from the Colonial Office, joined; and in 1886, so did
Graham Wallas. Shaw, Webb, Wallas, and Sidney Olivier became known as
the 'Big Four.'
The other faction, known as 'The Fellowship,' continued for 15 years
under Davidson, with members such J. Ramsey MacDonald (who later became
Prime Minister), Edward Carpenter, and Havelock Ellis.
Their pamphlet Facts for Socialists in 1887, maintained that any person
who knew the facts of Socialism, had no other choice but to be one. It
was their best selling piece of propaganda.
In 1884, John W. Martin and Rev. W. D. P. Bliss moved to Boston (MA),
and established a magazine known as The American Fabian. The move was an
unsuccessful effort to bring the Fabian's socialistic movement to New
York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago.
By 1889, 6500 tracts had been distributed, and 31 speakers had delivered
721 lectures. From 1891-92, there had been 3,339 lectures given by 117
Fabian members. Their membership rose to 400 by 1892, 681 in 1894, and
881 in 1899. They had 74 local chapters in Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, India, South Africa, Spain, Denmark, and Germany.
In 1899, The Fabian Essays, the most noted work on socialism, was
written by seven influential members of the Society, and edited by Shaw.
It became the blueprint for socialistic legislation, and was later
reprinted in 1908, 1920, 1931, and 1952.
Fabian leaders were drawn to Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), and his
ideas of the 'New Republic' which he described as "a sort of outspoken
Secret Society ... an informal and open freemasonry," made up of the
educated class, whose common goals would lead to the creation of a new
World State, thus saving the human race from disaster. Known as the
'Prophet of Our Time' because of writing about many things before they
came to be, in books like The Time Machine and War of the Worlds; Wells
would give the Fabians the notoriety they needed. Edward Pease,
Secretary of the Fabians, wrote to H. G. Wells on January 10, 1902, to
say that Webb and his wife Beatrice, were the "pioneers of your New
Republic."
Sponsored by Wallas and Shaw, Wells joined them in February, 1903. In
his first lecture after joining, he said that the World State was a
necessity. In his 1905 book, A Modern Utopia, he wrote of the World
State taking control and creating a "sane order," and how they
maintained a central records system in Paris, which they used to keep
track of every person on Earth, and aided the state to eliminate the
unfit.
Wells was unimpressed with the Fabians, and called for expansion, by
raising money, getting new offices, appointing a new staff, and relaxing
the guidelines for membership. He wanted to initiate an all-out
propaganda campaign, and outlined his views in a paper called The Faults
of the Fabians, which dealt with the need for reorganization, and why he
wanted to change their name to the 'British Socialist Society.' His
views were not shared by the Fabian inner circle, and in September,
1908, he resigned.
Wells maintained his socialistic views, and in 1928, wrote The Open
Conspiracy: Blueprints for a World Revolution, which was an elaboration
of ideas from his 1926 book The World of William Clissold, which gave a
seven-point program for the development of the "new human community,"
and was inspired by the rise of communism. These ideas had been fleshed
out in his 1897 short story A Story of the Days to Come, and his 1901
book, Anticipations of the Reaction to Mechanical and Scientific
Progress Upon Human Life and Thought.
The character, Clissold, had called his project for world revolution,
the "open conspiracy," which meant:
".the establishment of the economic world-state by the deliberate
invitation, explicit discussion, and cooperation of the men most
interested in economic organization, men chosen by their work, called to
it by a natural disposition and aptitude for it, fully aware of its
importance and working with the support of an increasing general
understanding ... It is not a project to overthrow existing governments
by insurrectionary attacks, but to supersede them by disregard. It does
not want to destroy them or alter their forms but to make them
negligible by replacing their functions. It will respect them as far as
it must. What is useful of them it will use; what is useless it will
efface by its stronger reality; it will join issue only with what is
plainly antagonistic and actively troublesome."
His plan was to be accomplished by "an intelligent minority ... without
the support of the crowd and possibly in spite of its dissent..."
The Open Conspiracy was Wells' perspective of his New Republic, which
represented a classless World State that controlled everything. Its
establishment would be accomplished by "functional men, men of high
natural intelligence and professional competence, who performed the
creative and managerial work of the world." They were recruited from
"the men and women whose knowledge, skill, creative gifts made them
indispensable to modern society" who would "gradually have the reins of
power into their hands." The revolution was to begin through the
"formation of small groups of friends, family groups, groups of students
and employees or other sorts of people meeting and conversing frequently
in the course of normal occupations." They were to "enlarge themselves
and attempt to establish communications with kindred groups for common
ends."
He further elaborated:
"The Open Conspiracy will appear first, I believe, as a conscious
organization of intelligent, and in some cases wealthy men, as a
movement having distinct social and political aims, confessedly ignoring
most of the existing apparatus of political control, or using it only as
an incidental implement in the stages, a mere movement of a number of
people in a certain direction, who will presently discover, with a sort
of surprise, the common object toward which they are all moving. In all
sorts of ways, they will be influencing and controlling the ostensible
government."
He also wrote: "From the outset, the Open Conspiracy will set its face
against militarism," in the sense that they will encourage "refusal to
serve in any war (as conscientious objectors) ... For the furtherance of
its aims, the Open Conspiracy may work in alliance with all sorts of
movements and people ... (and) restricted movements will attend only to
a portion of its program."
According to Wells, expansion would occur through:
"branching and development ... (with) the Open Conspiracy as consisting
of a great multitude and variety of overlapping groups, but now all
organized for collective political, social and educational as well as
propagandist action. They will recognize each other much more clearly
than they did at first and they will have acquired a common name ... The
character of the Open Conspiracy will now be plainly displayed. It will
have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as
socialism and communism. It will largely have taken the place of these
movements. It will be more, it will be a world-religion. This large
loose assimilatory mass of groups and societies will be definitely and
obviously attempting to swallow up the entire population of the world
and become the new human community."
Two years later, in a published article titled "The Banker," Wells even
included the international banking houses in Clissold's "open
conspiracy" through a three-point program that would by-pass governments
by negotiating agreements stabilizing the currency, adjusting credit
availability to control the fluctuation of business, and the withdrawal
of credit to governments or armament industries who instigate an arms
race.
It is obvious that Wells either based his writings on the actual plans
of the Fabian elitists, or used his knowledge of what they had already
done in order to formulate a theory of what they were going to do in the
future. Since he did quit, were these writings meant to be an exposé or
a warning; or was he just stating facts, daring people to try and stop
them. We don't know his intent, but what we do know, was that he was
incredibly prophetic in his description of their methods. It would
indeed be a 'blueprint' for the manner in which the Illuminati would
entrench itself in our governmental affairs.
Edward Bernays, former head of CBS-TV, and a friend of H. G. Wells,
wrote in his 1928 book, Propaganda:
"As civilization becomes more complex, and as the need for invisible
government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have
been invented and developed by which public opinion may be regimented.
With printing press and newspaper, the telephone, telegraph, radio and
airplanes, ideas can be spread rapidly, and even instantaneously, across
the whole of America."
These tools would be fully utilized to begin the destruction of America.
The secret goal of the Fabian Society was to create a godless,
classless, socialistic society that was dedicated to the ultimate
victory of Socialism, which really meant- Communism. In 1891, they
became affiliated with the Second Socialist International (established
in 1889), and helped establish a Democratic Socialist state in Great
Britain.
The aims of the Fabian Society was developed by Webb, from what
Englishman John Ruskin (1819-1900) taught at Oxford University. Ruskin,
a teacher at the Working Men's College (founded in 1854 by
Christian-Socialist philosopher J. F. D. Maurice), a professor of Fine
Arts at Oxford, an artist and writer, based his views on those of
Socialist Robert Owen. He advocated a utopian society, and espoused
theories developed from the teachings of Plato (428-347 BC), who had
studied under Socrates, and became the greatest philosopher in history.
Plato established an academy which operated for 800 years, producing
many great men, including Aristotle. In his work, The Republic, he
outlined his ideal society, which was an aristocratic society ruled by
the elite. It included the elimination of marriage and the family, and
introduced selective breeding by the government, who would destroy all
inferior offspring. In Plato's utopia, sexual equality dictated that
women would fight alongside the men in times of war.
The Fabians were working towards a new world, by indoctrinating young
scholars who would eventually rise to power in various policy-making
positions throughout the world; by infiltrating educational
institutions, government agencies, and political parties. Their strategy
was called the "doctrine of inevitability of gradualism," which meant
that their goals would be gradually achieved. So gradual, that nobody
would notice, or "without breach of continuity or abrupt change of the
entire social issue." The secret was evolution, not revolution, or what
Webb called "permeation." Shaw (whose mistress, Florence Farr, was a
witch in the Order of the Golden Dawn), revealed that their goal was to
be achieved by "stealth, intrigue, subversion, and the deception of
never calling socialism by its right name."
In fact, that's how they got their name. The name originated from the
Roman Consul, General Quintus Fabius Maximus, the Cunctator ('Delayer'),
who through patient, cautious, delaying and elusive tactics, during the
early phases of the Second Punic War (218-201 BC), enabled the Roman
army to regroup and defeat Hannibal's stronger Carthaginian army.
One good example of this concept is television. Ever since Bible reading
and prayer have been taken out of schools, the entertainment industry
has been slowly and methodically taking bolder steps in the content of
their programming. We are seeing things being televised, which would
have never been considered thirty and forty years ago. Nudity done in
'good taste,' or done to be culturally or historically accurate, is
acceptable. Obscene language is tolerated (especially on the radio), if
it is an essential part of the plot. Even though the level of sex and
violence is increasing, the rate of complaints to the television
networks is decreasing. This shows a gradual acceptance on the part of
the public, or what the network bosses call the "relaxing of moral
standards." This was done to brainwash our children to constantly
bombard them with trash that would influence them, and turn them away
from God. This is so evident with the concept of music videos, which
have been able to combine sex and violence along with a hard driving
musical composition that has been shown to ferment rebellion in young
people.
In 1905, American Fabians established the Rand School of Economics in
New York City. On September 12, 1905, five of the Fabians met at Peck's
Restaurant in New York's Lower Manhattan: Upton Sinclair (well-known
author and socialist), Jack London (well-known fiction writer), Rev.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (a Unitarian minister), J.G. Phelps Stokes,
and Clarence Darrow (legendary lawyer). They incorporated the
Intercollegiate Socialist Society, for the purpose of promoting "an
intelligent interest in socialism among college men and women," and
established chapters at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, New York
University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Their true purpose was
to begin de-Christianizing America. One of its founding members was John
Dewey, the father of progressive education, whose philosophy consisted
of "atheism, socialism and evolution." In 1921, they changed their name
to the League for Industrial Democracy, whose purpose was "education for
a new social order based on production for use and not for profit." They
established a network of 125 chapters. Dewey would later serve as its
Vice-President, and in 1941, became its President.
The Fabians had broken away from the Liberal Party in the 1890's and
contributed to the founding of the Labor Representation Committee, which
in 1906, became the Labor Party. Shaw called for "wire-pulling" the
government in order to get Socialist measures passed. In 1918, the Labor
Party adopted a program which implemented the ideas of Fabianism.
In 1931, the New Fabian Research Bureau was organized, joining the
Fabian Society in 1938 to form a reorganized group. In 1940, the
Colonial Bureau of the Fabian Society was established; and in 1941, the
Fabian International Bureau was formed, which catered to international
issues.
In December, 1942, the Fabians published the Beveridge Report, written
by Sir William Beveridge (later made a Lord), who made a long list of
promises to Britons, if they would accept his package of social reforms.
In 1945, Fabian Socialists took control of the House of Commons, on the
strength of the Report, and the Parliamentary Reforms, which had been
published eleven years earlier by Sir Ivor Jennings. Within a few years,
British industries and services were nationalized and put under
government control, which now meant that the Rothschilds were able to
control more, because all the banks were forced to use Bank of England
notes, instead of their own.
At its peak in 1946, the Fabian Society had 8,400 members in 80 local
chapters. Among their members: Bertrand Russell (philologist,
mathematician and philosopher), (Pandit) Motilal Nehru (father of
India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and leader of the
Independence movement who founded the Swaraj, or 'self-rule' Party), and
Ramsey MacDonald (Prime Minister of England in 1924, 1929-35). Nearly
half of all Labor Party representatives of the Parliament in the House
of Commons were members, along with most Party leaders.
Today, from their headquarters at 11 Dartmouth Street, in London, they
spread their ideas among teachers, civil servants, politicians, union
officials, and other influential people. They publish the Fabian Review
magazine. They also hold meetings, lectures, conferences, and seminars;
do research in political, economic, and social problems; and publish
their findings and views in magazines, books and pamphlets. Their
concentration has been mainly on reforms to social services and the
nationalization of industry.
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