(Constable, 1911.) p. 288.
[52] Mr. Barker erroneously uses the word "increment" for "income" in
several places. Unearned increment is quite another thing.
[53] See "Socialism and Superior Brains: a reply to Mr. Mallock," by
G.B. Shaw. Fabian Tract 146.
[54] Mr. Barker emphasises the "discrimination advocated by the Fabians"
in favour of profits in a later passage (p. 224) not here quoted.
[55] This should read "incomes."
[56] "Faults of the Fabian," p. 9.
[57] See Appendix I. B.
Appendix I
Memoranda by Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw has been good enough to write the following memoranda on
Chapter XII. For various reasons I prefer to leave that chapter as it
stands; but the memoranda have an interest of their own and I therefore
print them here.
A
ON THE HISTORY OF FABIAN ECONOMICS
Mr. Barker's guesses greatly underrate the number of tributaries which
enlarged the trickle of Socialist thought into a mighty river. They also
shew how quickly waves of thought are forgotten. Far from being the
economic apostle of Socialism, Mill, in the days when the Fabian Society
took the field, was regarded as the standard authority for solving the
social problem by a combination of peasant proprietorship with
neo-Malthusianism. The Dialectical Society, which was a centre of the
most advanced thought in London until the Fabian Society supplanted it,
was founded to advocate the principles of Mill's Essay on Liberty, which
was much more the Bible of English Individualism than Das Kapital ever
was of English Socialism.
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