.. and yet Socialism will be soaking
through it all, changing without a sign,"[56] and he at any rate meant
by his phrase, "make members of Socialist societies."
The older and better Fabian doctrine is set out in the opening
paragraphs of Tract 70, the "Report on Fabian Policy" (1896).
"THE MISSION OF THE FABIANS
The object of the Fabian Society is to persuade the English people to
make their political constitution thoroughly democratic and so to
socialise their industries as to make the livelihood of the people
entirely independent of private capitalism.
The Fabian Society endeavours to pursue its Socialist and Democratic
objects with complete singleness of aim. For example:--
It has no distinctive opinions on the Marriage Question, Religion, Art,
abstract Economics, historic Evolution, Currency, or any other subject
than its own special business of practical Democracy and Socialism.
It brings all the pressure and persuasion in its power to bear on
existing forces, caring nothing by what name any party calls itself or
what principles, Socialist or other, it professes, but having regard
solely to the tendency of its actions, supporting those which make for
Socialism and Democracy and opposing those which are reactionary.
It does not propose that the practical steps towards Social Democracy
should be carried out by itself or by any other specially organised
society or party.
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