Fabianism

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noun

The implementation of social reform through a series of gradual and moderate stages rather than sudden revolution.

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Meanings

nounFabianism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe implementation of social reform through a series of gradual and moderate stages rather than sudden revolution.

    These are not Socialism; they are only reforms. Mere parlor Socialism, such as Fabianism, for example, is also of no vital interest to the masses.

    1929, Alexander Berkman, chapter 13, in Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press, →OCLC

Origin

From Fabian + -ism, after the Fabian Society, named in honour of the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus.

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