Asquith regarded himself as a radical, but not so much so as Labouchere, whom he felt had acquired too much influence in the absence of concrete party policies, and he had little time for Fabianism.
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However, he and Brown had differed from the Blairites in being more keen to stress their roots in Labour party intellectual traditions such as Fabianism and the co-operative movement, in addition to taking a modernising approach when it came to policy.
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The book revived updated nuts-and-bolts Fabianism, which had been out of favour, and could be used to attack the more militant Left . His emphasis was on using the state as a national planning agency, an approach that appealed well beyond Labour.
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Influenced by Fabianism as well as Marxism-Leninism, the CSP included advocates of armed struggle or sabotage ( such as Jai Prakash Narayan and Basawon Singh ( Sinha ) as well as those who insisted upon ahimsa or nonviolent resistance ( such as Acharya Narendra Deva ).
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The use of the term is distinguished from the gradualism associated with Fabianism ( the ideology of the Fabian Society ), which itself should not be seen as being in parallel with the revisionism associated with Bernstein and the Social Democratic Party of Germany, as originally the Fabians had explicitly rejected Marxism.
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An earlier experiment with Fabianism in Australia was initiated in Adelaide in 1891 by the Rev Charles Marson, who had joined the Fabians in London in 1885 and drew in trade unionists like David Charleston, Robert Guthrie and John McPherson as well as social reformers like James & Lucy Morice into the first overseas branch of the UK Fabian Society.
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Joanna Briscoe also noted that the novel had a wonderful " sense of time and place " because it treats many elements unique to the period in the Britain very well, including Fabianism and class politics . " The Great Lover " also maintains a very vivid imagery and sensory elements related to The Orchard; as Vanessa Curtis of " The Scotsman " says, " the fragrance of honey, apples and flowers suffuse the novel ".
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In the 1951 essay " The Transition from Capitalism " he claimed that " by 1951 Britain had, in all the essentials, ceased to be a capitalist country " as a result of the establishment of the Sidney and Beatrice Webb in Fabian thinking, challenging their austere, managerialist, centralising, " top-down ", bureaucratic Fabianism with a more liberal vision of the good society and the good life, writing in " The Future of Socialism " that " Total abstinence and a good filing system are not now the right signposts to the socialist utopia.
