If these measures be carried out, without compensation (though not
without such relief to expropriated individuals as may seem fit to the
community), Rent and Interest will be added to the reward of labour, the
idle class now living on the labour of others will necessarily
disappear, and practical equality of opportunity will be maintained by
the spontaneous action of economic forces with much less interference
with personal liberty than the present system entails.
For the attainment of these ends the Fabian Society looks to the spread
of Socialist opinions, and the social and political changes consequent
thereon, _including the establishment of equal citizenship for men and
women._[58] It seeks to achieve these ends by the general dissemination
of knowledge as to the relation between the individual and Society in
its economic, ethical, and political aspects.
FOOTNOTES:
[58] The words in italics were added in 1907. See page 177.
Appendix III
List of the names and the years of office of the ninety-six members of
the Executive Committee, 1884-1915
The full term of office is from April to March, and such an entry as
1901-2 usually means one year's office. Membership has been terminated
in many cases by resignation, in the great majority by refusal to stand
for re-election, in perhaps a dozen cases by defeat, and never by death.
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