ABSTRACT
"Fabian Socialism" is the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of revisionism. Instead of revising the revolutionary teaching of Karl Marx, the Fabians ignore it, or dismiss it with a few superior words in the name of British common sense. The whole general spirit of Anglo-Saxon intellectual culture and philosophy— notwithstanding the little bomb exploded in behalf of the Deity by Bishop Berkeley— has been matter-of-fact and scientific. This seems to be because the Anglo-Saxons are so well at ease with the hypocrisies of religion. The Germans are more honest and sentimental. Bernard Shaw adopted the former alternative. He rejected Marxism wholesale— not because he is a soft-headed socialist by temperament or natural conviction, but because he is a man of hard common sense. "A good man fallen among Fabians", Lenin called him. Most Anglo-Saxon revolutionists, including the theorists of the present British Communist party, have adopted the other alternative. They have tried to become Marxists and at the same time remain sensible and scientific-minded Britons.
