Balder Ex-Libris - The Fabian SocietyReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearThe Fabian Society - The forthy-sixt annual reporturn:md5:42af84f353149fb28cf87214e620eca82012-03-19T01:59:00+00:002014-05-07T21:24:56+01:00balderThe Fabian SocietyFabian SocietyJew <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.The_Fabian_Society_-_The_forthy-sixt_annual_report_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>The Fabian Society - Carpenter Edward - Dymond D. C. Pedder</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The forthy-sixt annual report</strong><br />
Year : 1929<br />
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The year under review has been marked by a continued development and consolidation of the Labour movement and the Labour Party. The figures of the recent bye-elections shoW a large turnover of votes to Labour, and there are clear indications that the country is turning to that Party as the real opposition to the reactionary policy of the government. It is worthy of note that the Fabian Society, which has taken its part in the education and formation of public opinion in political affairs, has now nearly a hundred of its members adopted as candidates for Parliament at the approaching election. In our own affairs the year has been one of some trouble and difficulty owing to the need for obtaining new j^remises and removing. The premises at 25, Tothill Street, which we had occupied for fourteen years, were sold for rebuilding, and are now demolished, and we received notice to quit in March. It was impossible to find any suitable premises to let in the vicinity, and we were accordingly faced with the alternative of leaving Westminster or purchasing a suitable house in the neighbourhood. Fortunately such a house was available and for sale at a reasonable price, and eventually it was decided to buy the freehold of our present premises, 11, Dartmouth Street. A member of the Society kindly advanced the sum of £2,500 on a mortgage, and the Atkinson Fund Trustees advanced a further £1,000 free of interest but to be repaid by annual instalments. This sufficed to purchase the freehold and to put the premises in thorough repair, including some necessarv reconstruction. We removed on September 24-th, and the new house is satisfactory and meets our needs in every way, except that it does not provide a hall for meetings. <strong>...</strong></p>The Fabian Society - Socialism and Agricultureurn:md5:998a96b6fa6f3c3bb72c2a7b46660a052012-03-19T01:55:00+00:002014-05-07T21:25:00+01:00balderThe Fabian SocietyAgricultureFabian SocietyJew <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.The_Fabian_Society_-_Socialism_and_Agriculture_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Authors : <strong>The Fabian Society - Carpenter Edward - Dymond D. C. Pedder</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Socialism and Agriculture</strong><br />
Year : 1908<br />
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I. THE VILLAGE AND THE LANDLORD By EDWARD CARPENTER. My object in this paper is simply to describe the economie conditions of a single country parish, bere m England, and from the consideration of these conditions to draw some inferences towards our future policy with regard to the land. In modem life-in every department of it, one may say-bedrock facts are so veiled over by complex and adventitious growths that it is difficult to see the proper and original outline of any problem with which we are dealing ; and so it certainly is in this matter of the land q11estion. Any one glancing at a country village, say in the neighbourhood of London, probably sees a mass of villas, people hurrying to a railway station, motor-cars, and so forth ; but as to where the agricultural workers are, what they are doing, how they live, what their relations may be to the land and the land ownersthese things are obscure, not easily seen, and difficult to get information about. And yet these are the things, one may say, which are most vital, most important. <strong>...</strong></p>The Fabian Society - Fabian Tract No. 41 The Fabian society What it has Done; & How it has Done iturn:md5:f7ca907919c9e8143b44e59f20689ec72012-03-19T01:49:00+00:002014-05-07T21:25:04+01:00balderThe Fabian SocietyFabian SocietyJew <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.The_Fabian_Society_-_What_it_has_Done_and_How_it_has_Done_it_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>The Editors of Executive Intelligence Review</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Fabian Tract No. 41 The Fabian society What it has Done; & How it has Done it</strong><br />
Year : 1892<br />
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If any delegate present thinks &at the Fabian Society was wise Ii from the hour of its birth, let him forthwith renounce that error. - The Fabian wisdom, such as it is, has grown out of the Fabian experience ; and our distinction, if we may claim any, lies more in our capacity for profiting by experience (a rarer faculty in politics than you might suppose) than in any natural superiority on our part. to the follies of incipient Socialism. In 1883 we were content with nothing less than the prompt “reconstruction of society in accordance’ with the highest moral possibilities.” In 1884 we were discussing whether money should be permitted under Socialism, or whether labor notes would not be a more becoming currency for us ; and I myself actually debated the point with a Fabian who had elaborated a pass-book system to supersede both methods. Then we were joined by Mrs. Wilson, now one of the chief members of the Freedom Group of Kropotkinist Anarchists ; and a sort of influenza of Anarchism soon spread through the society. When we issued our fortunately littleknown Tract No. 4, “What Socialism Is,” we divided it into two sections, one answeriqg the question from the Collectivist and &he’ other from the Anarchist point of view. The answer did not amount to much either way; for the tract contains nothing that was not already to be found better stated in the famous Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels. <strong>...</strong></p>