Message from @Thomas the Sowell Train [USA]

Discord ID: 378052564513587200


2017-11-09 05:09:03 UTC  

yeah I literally just found out about it and it sure is intrigeing

2017-11-09 05:09:29 UTC  

hmm, I'll have to look into it more

2017-11-09 05:09:49 UTC  

oh my gosh I can't type intriuging

2017-11-09 05:09:58 UTC  

but yeah seems like something to look into

2017-11-09 05:10:00 UTC  

apparently the labour party grew out of it

2017-11-09 05:10:27 UTC  

Why do communist/socialist always choose symbolism that makes them look like classic bad guys?

2017-11-09 05:10:40 UTC  

"They [Fabian Socialists] were going to create a just society for the British workers—the beginning of a welfare state, cheap council housing, free medicine and dental treatment, free spectacles, generous unemployment benefits. Of course, for students from the colonies, like Singapore and Malaya, it was a great attraction as the alternative to communism. We did not see until the 1970s that that was the beginning of big problems contributing to the inevitable decline of the British economy."

2017-11-09 05:20:40 UTC  

So they chose their name by the inspiration of a Roman who used Guerilla-like military tactics to engage a superior army.

2017-11-09 05:21:14 UTC  

So they're... Geurilla Intellectuals.

2017-11-09 05:21:29 UTC  

edgy af

2017-11-09 05:22:40 UTC  

"For the right moment you must wait, as Fabius did most patiently, when warring against Hannibal, though many censured his delays; but when the time comes you must strike hard, as Fabius did, or your waiting will be in vain, and fruitless."

2017-11-09 05:22:55 UTC  

Hysterical

2017-11-09 05:22:55 UTC  

wtf does that mean then

2017-11-09 05:23:28 UTC  

Sounds gay

2017-11-09 05:23:33 UTC  

that's a creepy way to think about your ideological quest

2017-11-09 05:23:36 UTC  

Fabian Society Colorized

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/372513679964635138/378051981601931275/150px-Fabian_Society_coat_of_arms.png

2017-11-09 05:25:36 UTC  

"The major influence on the Labour Party and on the English-speaking socialist movement worldwide, has meant that Fabianism became one of the main inspirations of international social democracy. An American Fabian Society was established in Boston in February 1895 by Rev. W. D. P. Bliss, a prominent Christian socialist.[42] The group published a periodical, The American Fabian, and issued a small series of pamphlets.[42] Around the same time a parallel organization emerged on the Pacific coast, centered in California, under the influence of socialist activist Laurence Gronlund.[42]"

2017-11-09 05:25:38 UTC  

Communists looking dumb with an L on their forehead

2017-11-09 05:25:44 UTC  

So they've since abondoned that logo, and changed it to a tortoise.

2017-11-09 05:25:55 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/372513679964635138/378052564014596097/images.duckduckgo.jpg

2017-11-09 05:26:00 UTC  

fucking wow

2017-11-09 05:27:50 UTC  

[Laurence] Gronlund is best remembered for his pioneering work in adapting the International Socialism of Karl Marx and Ferdinand Lassalle to the American idiom in his popular 1884 book, The Cooperative Commonwealth...and the American socialist movement of the 1880s and 1890s.

2017-11-09 05:28:48 UTC  

no wonder Cali is so fucked up

2017-11-09 05:31:45 UTC  

apparently this guy was pretty influential back in the day... I actually wonder how much of an impact he had

2017-11-09 05:33:37 UTC  

Immediately upon its inception, the Fabian Society began attracting many prominent contemporary figures drawn to its socialist cause, including George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells...Even Bertrand Russell briefly became a member, but resigned after he expressed his belief that the Society's principle of entente (in this case, between countries allying themselves against Germany) could lead to war.

2017-11-09 05:33:45 UTC  

Snapping turtles are more Badass

2017-11-09 05:34:09 UTC  

They'll fuck you up and your entire family

2017-11-09 05:35:18 UTC  

"The first Fabian Society pamphlets advocating tenets of social justice coincided with the zeitgeist of Liberal reforms during the early 1900s, including eugenics."

2017-11-09 05:35:35 UTC  

what the fuck

2017-11-09 05:35:40 UTC  

how far back does social justice go?

2017-11-09 05:35:52 UTC  

this rabbit hole just keeps going

2017-11-09 05:36:51 UTC  

"The Fabians lobbied for the introduction of a minimum wage in 1906, for the creation of a universal health care system in 1911"

2017-11-09 05:41:56 UTC  

"Through the course of the 20th century the group has always been influential in Labour Party circles, with members including...more recently Shirley Williams, Tony Blair"

2017-11-09 05:44:17 UTC  

"Direct or indirect Fabian influence may also be seen in the liberal socialism of Carlo Rosselli (founder, with his brother Nello Rosselli, of the anti-fascist group's Giustizia e LibertĂ )"

2017-11-09 05:44:28 UTC  

of course they're allied with the anti-fascists

2017-11-09 05:44:31 UTC  

classic

2017-11-09 06:18:35 UTC  
2017-11-09 06:18:44 UTC  

"It'll get ya....eventually"

2017-11-09 06:19:18 UTC  

Proactive misinformation