[Fabian] George Bernard Shaw has frankly described this policy:
“Our propaganda is one of permeating - we urged our members to join the Liberal and Radical Associations in their district, or, if they preferred it, the CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATIONS - we permeated the party organisations and pulled all the strings we could lay our hands on with the utmost adroitness and energy, and we succeeded so well that in 1888 we gained the solid advantage of a Progressive majority full of ideas that would never have come into their heads had not the Fabians put them there.”
The essence of the Fabian’s Soviet-by-Stealth programme was to exploit the natural tendency of all politicians, irrespective of label, to concentrate power. The Fabians set about influencing all politicians to support legislation which would so start centralising power that a process of delegation of power to a bureaucracy would become inevitable. Once the bureaucracy was empowered to make regulations and decrees having the force of law, responsible Parliamentary Government would be undermined, and the traditional Constitutional safeguards of the individual’s rights destroyed.
In other words, the Fabians set out deliberately to pervert the Parliamentary system.
http://www.alor.org/Library/FabianSocialistContributiontotheCommunistAdvance.htm
It was just a thought...
Sure I know what a Fabian is. We have the Republicans and Democrats today, they are both Fabians; some more effective than others.