THREAD: Both UK PM Keir Starmer and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan are members of the Fabian Society, a British socialist organisation founded in 1884, with the goal of installing socialism through gradual, imperceptible increments, rather than revolutionary overthrow.
The Fabian Society is infamous for its support and promotion of eugenics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The Fabian Society is infamous for its support and promotion of eugenics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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In the Spring 2024 edition of the Fabian Society's quarterly magazine, Fabian Review, Sadiq Khan wrote:
"I joined the Fabian Society 30 years ago because its values reflected my own. As mayor, those values have been the foundation on which I have governed."
"Let us make this [140 year] anniversary year one to remember – with City Hall, a host of Whitehall departments and 10 Downing Street all occupied by Fabians."
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"I joined the Fabian Society 30 years ago because its values reflected my own. As mayor, those values have been the foundation on which I have governed."
"Let us make this [140 year] anniversary year one to remember – with City Hall, a host of Whitehall departments and 10 Downing Street all occupied by Fabians."
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Sure enough, 10 Downing Street is now occupied by fellow Fabian and leader of the British Labour Party, Keir Starmer.
Writing in the same edition of Fabian Review, Starmer boasted about the Labour Party's determination "to achieve the long-term change desperately needed to transform the lives of working people."
"I hope and know that the Fabians will be alongside us again in our mission for a decade of national renewal."
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Writing in the same edition of Fabian Review, Starmer boasted about the Labour Party's determination "to achieve the long-term change desperately needed to transform the lives of working people."
"I hope and know that the Fabians will be alongside us again in our mission for a decade of national renewal."
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The Fabian Society takes its name from Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, a Roman general renowned for his strategy of slow, gradual victory in warfare.
Fabius famously resisted the superior Carthaginian army under Hannibal by avoiding pitched, climactic battles. Instead, he employed a methodical approach of persistence, harassment and wearing the enemy down over time.
This philosophy of gradualism is echoed in the Fabian Society's first pamphlet:
"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."
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Fabius famously resisted the superior Carthaginian army under Hannibal by avoiding pitched, climactic battles. Instead, he employed a methodical approach of persistence, harassment and wearing the enemy down over time.
This philosophy of gradualism is echoed in the Fabian Society's first pamphlet:
"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."
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As explained by author Jon Perdue: "The logo of the Fabian Society, a tortoise, represented the group's predilection for a slow, imperceptible transition to socialism, while its coat of arms, a 'wolf in sheep's clothing', represented its preferred methodology for achieving its goal."
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Several prominent members of the Fabian Society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—including playwright George Bernard Shaw, writer H. G. Wells, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, who were both instrumental in founding the Labour Party—expressed support for eugenics, a pseudoscientific ideology that sought to improve the genetic quality of a human population by encouraging the reproduction of individuals deemed "desirable", whilst reducing or preventing reproduction among those considered "undesirable".
Eugenics has historically been used to justify depopulation and population control measures, often under the guise of improving societal well-being or addressing perceived social, economic, or environmental challenges.
These efforts were typically framed as "scientific" approaches to managing population growth or enhancing the "quality" of the population, and included forced sterilisations, marriage restrictions, and other forms of social engineering.
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Eugenics has historically been used to justify depopulation and population control measures, often under the guise of improving societal well-being or addressing perceived social, economic, or environmental challenges.
These efforts were typically framed as "scientific" approaches to managing population growth or enhancing the "quality" of the population, and included forced sterilisations, marriage restrictions, and other forms of social engineering.
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Infamous Fabian and eugenicist George Bernard Shaw:
"There are an extraordinary number of people whom I want to kill."
"You must all know half a dozen people at least, who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. And I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board, just as he might come before the income tax commissioners... and say, Sir or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence?"
"If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organisation of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us."
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"There are an extraordinary number of people whom I want to kill."
"You must all know half a dozen people at least, who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. And I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board, just as he might come before the income tax commissioners... and say, Sir or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence?"
"If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organisation of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us."
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H/t: @JoeWolverton2JD
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