Zitat Barack Obama is a Fabian socialist. I should know; I was raised by one. My Grandfather worked as a union machinist for Ingersoll Rand (nyse: IR - news - people ) during the day. In the evenings he tended bar and read books. After his funeral, I went back home and started working my way through his library, starting with T.W. Arnold's The Folklore of Capitalism. This was my introduction to the Fabian socialists.
Fabians believed in gradual nationalization of the economy through manipulation of the democratic process. Breaking away from the violent revolutionary socialists of their day, they thought that the only real way to effect "fundamental change" and "social justice" was through a mass movement of the working classes presided over by intellectual and cultural elites. Before TV it was stage plays, written by George Bernard Shaw and thousands of inferior "realist" playwrights dedicated to social change. John Cusack's character in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" captures the movement rather well.
In the United States the Fabians were originally represented by the League for Industrial Democracy and counted among its membership such notables as Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Clarence Darrow, Norman Thomas, John Dewey (father of modern education), and extremely influential political columnist and Presidential advisor Walter Lippman.
As in England with the Fabians the LID was (and is) an elitist affair and despite its lip service to the poor and the workingman really sees itself as the true intellectuals designed by nature to rule. Obama merely continues this tradition. He's never really worked a day in his life but he fancy himself a great intellectual (as do his benighted followers) who ought be in charge of everything and everyone.
A good book to read on this subject is Fabian Freeway: High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A. 1884-1966 by Rose L Martin. The members of the official Communist Party in the USA are a joke and nothing more than a front group for the truly dangerous people, the Fabians.
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Wed Dec 12, 2012 5:16 pm
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