George Bernard Shaw person
· born in Dublin
also: Bernard, Bernard Shaw, Courtney, G Bernard Shaw, G.B.S., GBS, he, I, Mr G. B. Shaw, Shavian, Shaw, the Fabian, the Sprite
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend married
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“In 1897 Charlotte Payne-Townshend married G Bernard Shaw…”
source: url — Meet the four founders of LSE - LSE History · p.1
George Bernard Shaw funded
New Statesman documented
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“If Beatrice insisted on going ahead, he would pay up his share as an old friend…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.185
George Bernard Shaw removed_from_power
New Statesman documented
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“in 1916 he also severed connection, rather loudly, with the New Statesman…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.199
George Bernard Shaw headed
Fabian Research Department documented
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“Shaw, who was showing sympathy with the Rebel outlook— though not with the Rebel resolutions—was already a figurehead Chairman of the Department, and Cole its Vice-Chairman…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.208
George Bernard Shaw headed
Research Department documented
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“with the full assent of its Chairman Bernard Shaw…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.211
George Bernard Shaw worked_for
Labour Research Department documented
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“along with such Fabians as Bernard Shaw and Barbara Drake... Shaw and Mrs Drake resigned sooner than accept it.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.216
George Bernard Shaw lived_in
Stresa documented
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“Shaw, having spent eight weeks of his summer holiday at Stresa…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.226
George Bernard Shaw met_with
Benito Mussolini documented
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“in continuous and flattering interviews with Fascist officials... he lauded Mussolini…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.226
George Bernard Shaw met_with
Adler documented
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“embarked on a Press controversy with Adler…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.226
George Bernard Shaw met_with
Gaetano Salvemini documented
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“embarked on a Press controversy with... Gaetano Salvemini…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.226
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Joseph Stalin documented
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“his subsequent praise of Stalin…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.227
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Adolf Hitler documented
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“referring to Hitler, he said that his efforts had been obscured…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.227
George Bernard Shaw funded
Fabian Society documented
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“he agreed to lend it a substantial sum towards the purchase of its present home…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.227
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“In a letter to the newly-weds, Shaw had casually flung out the suggestion…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.228
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“‘You must be very happy,’ Ellen Terry had written a generation ago to Bernard Shaw, ‘with Mrs Webb to “arrange” you.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.230
George Bernard Shaw headed
Labour Party (UK) documented
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“the Advisory Committees set up in the first flush of reorganisation by Webb and Henderson which, eager amateurs though some of them were, were at first better than nothing, had been allowed to fall largely into decline.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.247
George Bernard Shaw worked_for
Fabian Society documented
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“The Fabian Quarterly of Spring, 1944, commemorating the official Diamond Jubilee, was a paean of self-praise, only slightly salted by some leg-pulling in an article by Bernard Shaw.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.308
George Bernard Shaw did_business_with
Fabian Society documented
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“Shaw held the mortgage on the offices…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.311
George Bernard Shaw met_with
Eduard Bernstein documented
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“Long, long ago Shaw had told the German Socialist, Eduard Bernstein, that he wanted the Fabians to be ‘the Jesuits of Socialism’…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.348
Fabian Society worked_for
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“In June 1905 the Fabian Executive requested Bernard Shaw to prepare for it a paper on “The Results of the Society’s Political Recommendations’ over the twenty years of its existence.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.362
George Bernard Shaw met_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“In 1946 Bernard Shaw remarked to Sidney: 'You had wonderful parents...'…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.18
Sidney Webb met_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“...but Sidney introduced his parents to Bernard Shaw, Graham Wallas and the other friends he made during the next ten years.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.21
Sidney Webb met_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb, who met each other for the first time at a Zetetical meeting in 1879.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.28
Sidney Webb relationship_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“Yet that they met there is incontrovertible, as that their friendship was of high importance for them both and for socialism in England.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.37
George Bernard Shaw invited
Sidney Webb documented
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“When Shaw invited him to join the Land Reform Union, one of several organisations that flourished under the impact of Henry George's propaganda for land nationalisation, Sidney declined except under certain conditions:…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.41
George Bernard Shaw founded
Karl Marx Club documented
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“He encouraged his friends to take part in a 'Karl Marx Club' or seminar, which was held in Hampstead under the auspices of Mrs Charlotte Wilson, a lady who wished to entertain very advanced opinions.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.41
Sidney Webb relationship_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“If it was the social question and Karl Marx, not Horace or Ovid, that he and Wallas, Olivier and Shaw were most concerned with when their friendship was formed in 1882-3...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.49
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society documented
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“The first number of The Anarchist included a contribution from Bernard Shaw, who had been a Fabian for a year or so, in which he asserted that The Collectivists would drive the money-chargers from Westminster only to replace them with a cen…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.51
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Parliamentary League documented
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“Sidney, along with Shaw, Olivier, Bland and Russell, drew up the rules: The Fabian Parliamentary League is composed of socialists who believe that socialism may be most quickly and most surely realised by utilising the political power alrea…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.65
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society documented
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“Sidney, unlike Shaw and many other Fabians, was never tempted to consider the advance of socialism in England in any way other than through peaceful progress of law and opinion…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.67
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society documented
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“The friendship of Bentham and James Mill, of the Positivists' mumbo-jumbo at Wadham in the mid-century, and of Webb, Shaw, Olivier and Wallas himself confirm the point.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.78
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“Shaw introduced Sidney to Marx…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.82
George Bernard Shaw met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“She had less success with Shaw.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.204
Beatrice Webb met_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“When this point was reached they went off with Bernard Shaw and Graham Wallas to stay either at the Argoed or else at some cottage in…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.241
George Bernard Shaw met_with
International Socialist Congress documented
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“When Shaw addressed the International Socialist Congress held in London in 1896 his paper reflected in its details, as well as in its general spirit, the results of the Webbs' trade union studies.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.274
George Bernard Shaw lived_in
Borough Farm documented
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“It is a fair conjecture - although no more than that - that Sidney Webb left this meeting to go to Borough Farm, a couple of miles south-west of Godalming, where Beatrice, Wallas and GBS were staying.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.300
George Bernard Shaw worked_for
Fabian Society documented
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“Shaw, who had represented Webb at the meeting, advised that Bland must be given 'a proprietary interest in our projects'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.303
Charlotte Payne-Townshend married
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“She married Bernard Shaw three years later.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.304
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“She plainly believed that her boy and 'the Sprite' (George Bernard Shaw) ought not to have gone in to this enterprise...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.325
George Bernard Shaw member_of
The Coefficients documented
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“Bernard Shaw was among those who participated from time to time.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.343
Sidney Webb did_business_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“Sidney was a good deal of time puffing Shaw in the Daily Mail and otherwise trying to get him elected to the LCC in 1904.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.353
George Bernard Shaw founded
London School of Economics documented
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“The four Fabians are credited as co-founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science…”
source: url — Meet the four founders of LSE - LSE History · p.1
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society documented
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“they both went on to be early members of the Fabian Society…”
source: url — Meet the four founders of LSE - LSE History · p.1
Sidney Webb met_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“he first met G Bernard Shaw in 1879 at the Zetetical Society…”
source: url — Meet the four founders of LSE - LSE History · p.1
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Zetetical Society documented
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“he first met G Bernard Shaw in 1879 at the Zetetical Society…”
source: url — Meet the four founders of LSE - LSE History · p.1
George Bernard Shaw founded
London School of Economics documented
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“It was the brain child of Sidney Webb, supported by his wife, the social investigator Beatrice Webb, the political scientist Graham Wallas, and the writer George Bernard Shaw.…”
source: url — LSE history overview - LSE · p.1
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society documented
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“All four were prominent members of the Fabian Society.…”
source: url — LSE history overview - LSE · p.1
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society documented
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“...he was admitted to membership in September and elected to the Executive in the following January.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.29
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Zetetical Society documented
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“...when he came to ‘the Fabian’! after experimenting with a body calling itself the Zetetical Society...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.29
George Bernard Shaw recruited
Annie Besant documented
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“Her conversion was effected, according to his own account, by Bernard Shaw; and she naturally became a propaganda asset.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.30
George Bernard Shaw wrote
The Webbs and Their Work documented
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“‘Why,’ wrote Shaw in the first chapter of The Webbs and Their Work…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.36
George Bernard Shaw proposed
Facts for Socialists reported
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“Shaw (who alone among the Fabians had studied Marx)! that he propounded the idea to Webb.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.42
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Hampstead Historic Club documented
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“For some years I attended the Hampstead Historic Club [an association founded to study Marx and Proudhon] once a fortnight…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.47
George Bernard Shaw worked_for
Fabian Society documented
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“It is at such lecturing and debating work... that the ordinary Fabian workman or clerk must qualify for his future seat on the Town Council...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.48
George Bernard Shaw headed
Fabian Essays in Socialism documented
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“Shaw was appointed editor, made or suggested some alterations to the several contributions, and added another of his own.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.49
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society documented
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“But it is also true that, even in the slighter essays, and eminently in the contributions of Shaw himself, Webb (catalogues notwithstanding), and William Clarke, the Fabians of 1889 laid down an exposition of Socialist thought...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.51
George Bernard Shaw proposed
Fabian Essays in Socialism documented
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“Shaw and Annie Besant both agree that in the transitional stage the socialist undertaking will have to be prepared to bid for its managers against the salaries which private industry is prepared to pay them…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.55
George Bernard Shaw wrote
The Quintessence of Ibsenism documented
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“this paper, re-written at greater length, became world-famous as The Quintessence of Ibsenism.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.61
Samuel Butler met_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“Of one such group, Shaw related that it collected an audience of five persons to listen to Samuel Butler discoursing upon the authorship of the Odyssey.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.62
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Executive Committee documented
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“in the first contested election Webb headed the list with 103 out of 117 votes, with Shaw and Wallas tieing two votes behind him…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.63
George Bernard Shaw wrote
Early History documented
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“the picture drawn by Shaw in his Early History.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.65
George Bernard Shaw met_with
William Morris documented
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“a manifesto was drafted by Shaw, Morris, and Hyndman…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.68
George Bernard Shaw met_with
Henry Hyndman documented
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“a manifesto was drafted by Shaw, Morris, and Hyndman…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.68
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Liberal Association documented
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“he himself was on the Executive of a Liberal Association…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.69
George Bernard Shaw met_with
Keir Hardie reported
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“I met Keir Hardie on the stairs, and in two minutes told him what to do…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.70
George Bernard Shaw worked_for
Independent Labour Party documented
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“he persuaded the Conference to include in its objects the abolition of indirect taxation and the taxation to extinction of unearned income…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.70
George Bernard Shaw worked_for
Keir Hardie documented
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“his eloquence certainly helped Hardie to defeat, albeit with a substantial minority, the foolish proposal known to history as the Manchester Fourth Clause…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.70
George Bernard Shaw member_of
St Pancras Liberal and Radical Association documented
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“I, being then a permeative Fabian on the Executive of the St Pancras Liberal and Radical Association...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.72
George Bernard Shaw met_with
Beale documented
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“I moved them, turning over Webb’s pages by batches and not reading most of them. Mr Beale seconded.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.72
George Bernard Shaw operated_in
Percy Hall documented
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“took them down to a meeting in Percy Hall, Percy Street, Tottenham Court Road...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.72
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Keir Hardie documented
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“Her opinion of the former was shared by Shaw, who in a letter to Sidney written in 1892, said, ‘My estimate of K.H. is that he is a Scotchman with alternate intervals of second sight...’…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.76
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“Quite the wisest thing I ever did [he wrote] was to force my friendship on him and to keep it; for from that time I was not merely a futile Shaw but a committee of Webb and Shaw.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.79
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
H. G. Wells documented
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“Working together, as H. G. Wells found to his cost, they were one of the most devastating combinations ever known.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.80
George Bernard Shaw lived_in
Borough Farm documented
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“On a certain day in August, 1894 [wrote Graham Wallas], Mr and Mrs Webb, Mr G. B. Shaw and I were staying at the little farm [Borough Farm, near Godalming]....…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.94
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Shaw, who had taken no apparent objection to the original proposition, exploded in a long and angry letter to Beatrice.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.97
George Bernard Shaw proposed
Charles Howard Hewins documented
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“First, Hewins must be told flatly that he must, in talking to the Guild of St Matthew and the other Oxford Socialists, speak as a Collectivist, and make it clear that the School of Economics will have.a Collectivist bias.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.97
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“She was also, as her Diaries show, lukewarm in her appreciation of Sidney’s colleagues, Shaw included…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.106
Sidney Webb met_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“when in January 1895 she and Sidney, at the request of MacDonald and Frank Smith of the I.L.P.... gave a dinner for those two with Pease, Shaw, Hardie, and Tom Mann in attendance…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Fabian Society appointed
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“Pease and Shaw were appointed delegates without specific instructions.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.118
H. G. Wells relationship_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“In the ‘Episode of Mr Wells’, as Pease calls it in his history, the immediate issue was one of personality not of principle—Wells versus the Old Guard, with Shaw as its chief spokesman.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.153
George Bernard Shaw headed
Fabian Society documented
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“but in January, somewhat surprisingly, the Executive (with Shaw in the chair!) declared that ‘The Executive cannot consent to the use of the word Fabian by a Dramatic Group.’…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.156
George Bernard Shaw wrote
The Commonsense of Municipal Trading documented
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“Socialist Sixpennies, published on behalf of the Society by A. C. Fifield, of which the most widely known was Shaw’s best-seller, The Commonsense of Municipal Trading.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.164
George Bernard Shaw proposed
Fabian Society documented
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“Shaw submitted his idea ‘as a provision against senile decay of the Society’ to the Executive, which on Webb’s motion agreed to propose to the Annual Meeting the creation of a class of ‘Consultative Executive Members’...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.173
George Bernard Shaw left
Executive Committee documented
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“The net effect was that Shaw and Bland ... left the Executive…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.174
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Benito Mussolini documented
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“Shaw, of course, had no opinion at all of the common man—an aberration which later landed him in support of Mussolini.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.178
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society documented
“we've got the potter and chamberlain railroad industry connections around beatrice webb that's where she got her fortune got the psychical research from podmore and ellis the theosophical and co-masonic networks of besant the coefficients d…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 1:10:57
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society host_asserted
“Just a very quick overview, just for context, so people can understand his role. He was basically the propaganda machine of the Fabians. He used his wit and public persona to make Fabianism fun, to make it acceptable to the London set dinne…”
▶ The Shadow State 71 Fabian Socialists Pt. 4 @ 1:00:03
George Bernard Shaw founded
London School of Economics host_asserted
“He's a major contributor to the Fabian Essays in Socialism, which we've talked about. Obviously an advocate of permeation and gradualism. He was also one of the co-founders of the London School of Economics and the New Statesman. He also de…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 51:26
George Bernard Shaw founded
The New Statesman host_asserted
“He's a major contributor to the Fabian Essays in Socialism, which we've talked about. Obviously an advocate of permeation and gradualism. He was also one of the co-founders of the London School of Economics and the New Statesman. He also de…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 51:26
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society host_asserted
“Why are the many poor? It intrigued him enough. He went to the next scheduled meeting and ends up joining the Fabian Society like their very third meeting. And by 1885, Bernard Shaw is on the executive committee of the Fabians. Fast forward…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 1:00:10
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Social Democratic Federation host_asserted
“So George Bernard Shaw starts attending meetings of Social Democratic SDF, Social Democratic Federation, where he discovers the writings of Karl Marx, where he reads Das Kapital. The Social Democratic Federation was led by a guy by the name…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 59:39
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society Executive Committee host_asserted
“Why are the many poor? It intrigued him enough. He went to the next scheduled meeting and ends up joining the Fabian Society like their very third meeting. And by 1885, Bernard Shaw is on the executive committee of the Fabians. Fast forward…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 1:00:10
George Bernard Shaw founded
Common Sense About the War host_asserted
“won, but he didn't agree with them on that either. So... Yeah, I'll do that for World War I, because he did something interesting. He produces another track called Common Sense About the War, where he argues that both sides, all the nations…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 1:04:27
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Social Democratic Federation host_asserted
“As we talked about last week, you know, George Bernard Shaw, after discovering Karl Marx and reading Das Kapital, he joined what's called the Social Democratic Federation two years prior to becoming a Fabian. Yeah. So that was all part of i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 5 @ 1:10:28
George Bernard Shaw disliked
H.M. Hyndman host_asserted
“So George Bernard Shaw starts attending meetings of Social Democratic SDF, Social Democratic Federation, where he discovers the writings of Karl Marx, where he reads Das Kapital. The Social Democratic Federation was led by a guy by the name…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 59:19
George Bernard Shaw influenced_by
Why Are the Many Poor? host_asserted
“So George Bernard Shaw starts attending meetings of Social Democratic SDF, Social Democratic Federation, where he discovers the writings of Karl Marx, where he reads Das Kapital. The Social Democratic Federation was led by a guy by the name…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 59:19
George Bernard Shaw influenced_by
Henry George host_asserted
“Interestingly enough, when Shaw visits America, he's very critical about how cheesy Hollywood was. But he actually took some things home from it that he liked. We can talk about that. He gets his political awakening in 1882. We went to a ta…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 55:13
George Bernard Shaw born_in
Dublin host_asserted
“If you call him George Bernard Shaw, he'd get very upset and pugilistic. He insisted on being known as Bernard Shaw. Born in 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. Moved to London at age 20, where he spent most of his life, and then lived to the age of 1…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 46:11
George Bernard Shaw spied_on
Joseph Stalin documented
“to the Soviet Union, where he personally met Stalin and called Stalin a Georgian gentleman with no malice in him. He criticizes the media's representation of Soviet achievements, like the Holodomor. So I think we can question Shaw's judgmen…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 1:06:55
George Bernard Shaw founded
London School of Economics host_asserted
“It's going to permeate. You know, we talked about last week, a lot of these Fabians were into homoeroticism and stuff like that. So it just fits so perfect. It does. Great job, Sweet Sally. Thank you. I've been laughing about that ever sinc…”
▶ The Shadow State 73 London School of Economics @ 8:03
George Bernard Shaw founded
London School of Economics host_asserted
“It's going to permit it. You know, we talked about last week, a lot of these Fabians were into homoeroticism and stuff like that. So it just fits so perfect. It does. Great job, Sweet Sally. Thank you. I've been laughing about that ever sin…”
▶ Fabian Society - London School of Economics @ 7:46
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society host_asserted
“As we talked about last week, you know, George Bernard Shaw, after discovering Karl Marx and reading Das Kapital, he joined what's called the Social Democratic Federation two years prior to becoming a Fabian. Yeah. So that was all part of i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 5 @ 1:10:28
George Bernard Shaw appointed
H. G. Wells host_asserted
“for leadership position of the fabians none other than h.g wells wells lasted until about 1908 so two years in fabian society until he pissed everyone off um he would have a lifelong feud with the webs um all of his proposals for reform put…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 1:03:24
George Bernard Shaw appointed
Benito Mussolini host_asserted
“And he would grow away from gradualism at this point and favored dictatorial methods. He said this gradualism is taking too long. We need a stronger hand to force this stuff through. So that's why he celebrates Mussolini. In fact, Beatrice …”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 1:06:23
George Bernard Shaw co-founded
London School of Economics host_asserted
“He's a major contributor to the Fabian Essays in Socialism, which we've talked about. Obviously an advocate of permeation and gradualism. He was also one of the co-founders of the London School of Economics and the New Statesman. He also de…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 51:07
George Bernard Shaw admired
Benito Mussolini host_asserted
“Okay. He wrote over 60 plays. I'm not a literary clinic, so I'm not going to go really into them. Just trust me, there's a lot of them. He was trying to entertain you while kind of brainwashing you with his ideas, most of which was just poi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 54:40
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Benito Mussolini host_asserted
“And he would grow away from gradualism at this point and favored dictatorial methods. He said this gradualism is taking too long. We need a stronger hand to force this stuff through. So that's why he celebrates Mussolini. In fact, Beatrice …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 1:06:03
George Bernard Shaw moved_to
London host_asserted
“If you call him George Bernard Shaw, he'd get very upset and pugilistic. He insisted on being known as Bernard Shaw. Born in 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. Moved to London at age 20, where he spent most of his life, and then lived to the age of 1…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 46:11
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society host_asserted
“we've got the potter and chamberlain railroad industry connections around beatrice webb that's where she got her fortune got the psychical research from podmore and ellis the theosophical and co-masonic networks of besant the coefficients d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 1:10:37
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Fabian Society host_asserted
“Why are the many poor? It intrigued him enough. He went to the next scheduled meeting and ends up joining the Fabian Society like their very third meeting. And by 1885, Bernard Shaw is on the executive committee of the Fabians. Fast forward…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 59:51
George Bernard Shaw influenced_by
David Rico host_asserted
“they deserve that oh and by the way since we're on the topic the the land that i own is in the city limits of the town that i'm near i don't live in the city limits i don't even get to vote in the city um elections even though i own multipl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 57:42
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Vladimir Lenin book_quoted
“And he would grow away from gradualism at this point and favored dictatorial methods. He said this gradualism is taking too long. We need a stronger hand to force this stuff through. So that's why he celebrates Mussolini. In fact, Beatrice …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 1:06:03
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Joseph Stalin host_asserted
“to the Soviet Union, where he personally met Stalin and called Stalin a Georgian gentleman with no malice in him. He criticizes the media's representation of Soviet achievements, like the Holodomor. So I think we can question Shaw's judgmen…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 1:06:35
George Bernard Shaw admired
Joseph Stalin host_asserted
“Okay. He wrote over 60 plays. I'm not a literary clinic, so I'm not going to go really into them. Just trust me, there's a lot of them. He was trying to entertain you while kind of brainwashing you with his ideas, most of which was just poi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 54:40
George Bernard Shaw influenced_by
Karl Marx host_asserted
“He was well-versed in Karl Marx's Das Kapital, which he read in self-taught French. And he loved attending Social Democratic Federation meetings. He didn't like the revolutionary version, obviously, because he's a Fabian. He was...…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 48:54
Beatrice Webb accused
George Bernard Shaw host_asserted
“And he would grow away from gradualism at this point and favored dictatorial methods. He said this gradualism is taking too long. We need a stronger hand to force this stuff through. So that's why he celebrates Mussolini. In fact, Beatrice …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 1:06:03
George Bernard Shaw member_of
Social Democratic Federation host_asserted
“So George Bernard Shaw starts attending meetings of Social Democratic SDF, Social Democratic Federation, where he discovers the writings of Karl Marx, where he reads Das Kapital. The Social Democratic Federation was led by a guy by the name…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 59:19
George Bernard Shaw appointed
H. G. Wells host_asserted
“for a leadership position of the fabians none other than h.g wells wells lasted until about 1908 so two years in fabian society until he pissed everyone off um he would have a lifelong feud with the webs um all of his proposals for reform p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 1:03:05
George Bernard Shaw criticized
Holodomor host_asserted
“to the Soviet Union, where he personally met Stalin and called Stalin a Georgian gentleman with no malice in him. He criticizes the media's representation of Soviet achievements, like the Holodomor. So I think we can question Shaw's judgmen…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 1:06:35
George Bernard Shaw contributed_to
Fabian Essays in Socialism host_asserted
“He's a major contributor to the Fabian Essays in Socialism, which we've talked about. Obviously an advocate of permeation and gradualism. He was also one of the co-founders of the London School of Economics and the New Statesman. He also de…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 51:07
George Bernard Shaw co-founded
The New Statesman host_asserted
“He's a major contributor to the Fabian Essays in Socialism, which we've talked about. Obviously an advocate of permeation and gradualism. He was also one of the co-founders of the London School of Economics and the New Statesman. He also de…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 51:07
George Bernard Shaw recruited
Sidney Webb host_asserted
“Michael Moore is considered a polemist. These are all very effective speakers because it's a very structured way of forming an argument. This is a little Irishman, and he was basically the best publicity for the Fabian Society from day one.…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 50:13
George Bernard Shaw recruited
Annie Besant host_asserted
“Michael Moore is considered a polemist. These are all very effective speakers because it's a very structured way of forming an argument. This is a little Irishman, and he was basically the best publicity for the Fabian Society from day one.…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 50:13
George Bernard Shaw introduced
Annie Besant host_asserted
“michael moore is considered a polemic these are all very effective speakers because it's a uh it's a it's a very structured way of forming an argument this is a little irishman and he was basically the best publicity for the fabian society …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 49:54
George Bernard Shaw founded
Fabian Essays in Socialism host_asserted
“He's a major contributor to the Fabian Essays in Socialism, which we've talked about. Obviously an advocate of permeation and gradualism. He was also one of the co-founders of the London School of Economics and the New Statesman. He also de…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 51:26
George Bernard Shaw covered_up
Holodomor host_asserted
“to the Soviet Union, where he personally met Stalin and called Stalin a Georgian gentleman with no malice in him. He criticizes the media's representation of Soviet achievements, like the Holodomor. So I think we can question Shaw's judgmen…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 1:06:55
George Bernard Shaw introduced
Sidney Webb host_asserted
“michael moore is considered a polemic these are all very effective speakers because it's a uh it's a it's a very structured way of forming an argument this is a little irishman and he was basically the best publicity for the fabian society …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Fabian Society @ 49:54
George Bernard Shaw spied_on
Benito Mussolini host_asserted
“Okay. He wrote over 60 plays. I'm not a literary clinic, so I'm not going to go really into them. Just trust me, there's a lot of them. He was trying to entertain you while kind of brainwashing you with his ideas, most of which was just poi…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 54:59
George Bernard Shaw spied_on
Joseph Stalin host_asserted
“Okay. He wrote over 60 plays. I'm not a literary clinic, so I'm not going to go really into them. Just trust me, there's a lot of them. He was trying to entertain you while kind of brainwashing you with his ideas, most of which was just poi…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 54:59
Mentions (34)
▶ 1:10:28
As we talked about last week, you know, George Bernard Shaw, after discovering Karl Marx and reading Das Kapital, he joined what's called the Social Democratic Federation two years prior to becoming a Fabian. Yeah. So that was all part of i…
▶ 46:50
Top-down government control versus individual liberty. Guess which side Lincoln was on. You've told us. I'm going to keep hammering that one home. Of course, the biggest influence of Karl Marx was the one Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who …
▶ 59:34
First guy shoots at a bird, misses five feet left. Second economist shoots the bird, misses five feet right. Third economist says, let's go home. We got him. That's economics for you. All right. Our next great founder is, of course, George …
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Just a very quick overview, just for context, so people can understand his role. He was basically the propaganda machine of the Fabians. He used his wit and public persona to make Fabianism fun, to make it acceptable to the London set dinne…
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And he in contrast to Webb, Webb was very reserved. Webb was very quiet. Shaw was exactly the opposite. Obviously big in the gradualism piece of this and that he argued that socialists should infiltrate every political party. Now, we alread…
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It was Shaw that came up with the plan that they would have their plants in all of them so that they knew everything that was going on in all of the different political parties. And he used dinner parties and stuff like that in order to see…
▶ 1:02:54
It'll keep on grabbing more and more power. And that's exactly what the Fabians wanted. It's a direct confrontation of the founding ideals of this country. And Shaw was very vocal over the common man could not self-govern, that they require…
▶ 1:22
Mill, Owen, Comte, the Fellowship of New Life. That's just us over here, the Fabian Society, all their methods, economics, network logic. Takes us in here to the people I'm joined, Bernard Shaw. This is all done through the prompts and the …
▶ 11:41
She would join the Fabians in 1885 after she met George Bernard Shaw, who was one of our four horsemen. Later on, she would kind of grow into more of a Marxist than a Fabianist. And then she'd start traveling. As the colonel mentioned, she …
▶ 28:32
Just read some of the titles and look for the authors. You've got George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb. But look at the titles. Why are the many poor? What socialism is. Capital and land. Figures for Londoners. The workers' political program. T…
▶ 45:57
Technocracy 101 is the expert. So she's working towards that from every angle she can. She's prolific and successful. She reached a lot of people as they were on their way through the institutions. Yep. Okay. I think it's time for George Be…
▶ 46:30
If you call him George Bernard Shaw, he'd get very upset and pugilistic. He insisted on being known as Bernard Shaw. Born in 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. Moved to London at age 20, where he spent most of his life, and then lived to the age of 1…
▶ 47:01
I've seen lists where he's considered the second most influential playwright in British history behind William Shakespeare. That's it. So he was very, very prolific writer. Mostly he got his political views into his plays in one way, shape …
▶ 48:14
Okay. Also, he was living for free with his mom when they moved to London. He's basically self-educated. And he tried writing five novels, but he couldn't get any of them published. And he spent a lot of time in what was called the British …
▶ 48:43
He became a vegetarian in 1881. And he always had that beard that you see in that picture because his face was pocked mark from smallpox that he had as a child. His political conversion happened in 1882 after hearing a lecture on progress a…
▶ 49:13
He was well-versed in Karl Marx's Das Kapital, which he read in self-taught French. And he loved attending Social Democratic Federation meetings. He didn't like the revolutionary version, obviously, because he's a Fabian. He was...…
▶ 50:13
Michael Moore is considered a polemist. These are all very effective speakers because it's a very structured way of forming an argument. This is a little Irishman, and he was basically the best publicity for the Fabian Society from day one.…
▶ 50:47
Yeah, that's why I would say Bernard Shaw for last, because I think he is the foundational rock, or was. So he's obviously one of the society's most visible public faces. He's also a major pamphleteer. They're getting a lot of the propagand…
▶ 51:26
He's a major contributor to the Fabian Essays in Socialism, which we've talked about. Obviously an advocate of permeation and gradualism. He was also one of the co-founders of the London School of Economics and the New Statesman. He also de…
▶ 52:37
a wolf in sheep's clothing. It depicts everything. Pray devoutly, hammer stoutly is what this says right here in the corner. Yep. This actually got stolen like a decade or two ago and then recovered, but I don't have the whole story on that…
▶ 53:50
or retarded i guess is the word they used undesirables yeah exactly um that's pretty darn scary i'm so convinced that i'm right about everything that the ideas that i don't care about we're just going to forcibly kill you off sort of like w…
▶ 54:23
And over in England, you see the same thing. This was Shaw showing that this aggressive rhetoric could be effective in moving the needle. And that's basically what you see in Congress all the time. It's a scream. You know, Trump this, Trump…
▶ 54:59
Okay. He wrote over 60 plays. I'm not a literary clinic, so I'm not going to go really into them. Just trust me, there's a lot of them. He was trying to entertain you while kind of brainwashing you with his ideas, most of which was just poi…
▶ 58:38
that was influenced george bernard shaw was david ricardo who lived from 1772 to 1823 he's the one that came up with a theory of rent the principles of political economy and taxation said rent is not a reward for productive effort but arise…
▶ 59:39
So George Bernard Shaw starts attending meetings of Social Democratic SDF, Social Democratic Federation, where he discovers the writings of Karl Marx, where he reads Das Kapital. The Social Democratic Federation was led by a guy by the name…
▶ 1:00:10
Why are the many poor? It intrigued him enough. He went to the next scheduled meeting and ends up joining the Fabian Society like their very third meeting. And by 1885, Bernard Shaw is on the executive committee of the Fabians. Fast forward…
▶ 1:00:46
He didn't like the violent approach. I guess it led him more towards the gradual approach, seeing the bloodshed. Remember, he's an Irishman originally. Should we talk about his rather colorful sex life or just the fact that he has several i…
▶ 1:02:17
So we're about 1894. He starts having some success with literary success with his plays. And the first big hit he had was called Arms and the Man, which satirized love, military honor and social class. So he's a satirist making fun of him. …
▶ 1:02:45
and then the Boer Wars began in 1899. Shaw wants the Fabians to take a neutral stance because, like Home Rule, he considers it a non-socialist issue. That's controversial because the Fabians used the Boer Wars as a bit of political leverage…
▶ 1:03:24
for leadership position of the fabians none other than h.g wells wells lasted until about 1908 so two years in fabian society until he pissed everyone off um he would have a lifelong feud with the webs um all of his proposals for reform put…
▶ 1:04:27
won, but he didn't agree with them on that either. So... Yeah, I'll do that for World War I, because he did something interesting. He produces another track called Common Sense About the War, where he argues that both sides, all the nations…
▶ 1:06:23
And he would grow away from gradualism at this point and favored dictatorial methods. He said this gradualism is taking too long. We need a stronger hand to force this stuff through. So that's why he celebrates Mussolini. In fact, Beatrice …
▶ 6:02
desire to control people. That's exactly right. And that probably teases you up for that opening quote you were going to read because. So this is a quote from Bernard Shaw. Our propaganda is one of permeating. We urge our members to join th…
▶ 8:03
It's going to permeate. You know, we talked about last week, a lot of these Fabians were into homoeroticism and stuff like that. So it just fits so perfect. It does. Great job, Sweet Sally. Thank you. I've been laughing about that ever sinc…