Fabian society

[Jess850]

Please can anyone give me an idiots guide to this? I have done and will do some more reading but need a quick fire list of good and bad thanks for your time.

it's moderate left - named after a Roman general called Fabius Cunctator (Fabius the Delayer) because it believes in gradual reform rather than a massive revolution.

harmless enough I think....

Thanks I have read the basics and err to the left but need to be aware of any sinister or negative connatations. Our third child is due in three days and if a Son want to call him Fabian or the French spelling purely because we love the name.

I think some Fabians enthusiastically supported the idea of eugenics (in forms that would be particularly unpalatable to most modern minds, being based on stereoptyped ideas about racial characteristics and social class) before the 2nd World War, but I guess the idea was of interest to many intellectuals of various political backgrounds at the time.

'err to the left but need to be aware of any sinister or negative connatations'

For negatives, google "youtube fabian society".

Yes indeed not as cuddly as they are often made out to be.

They were quite amenable to the idea of killing people by their category.

George Bernard Shaw thought that people who were nor economically productive should be put down:

Elsewhere he went into detail about how this should be done. The chemists should provide the answer, he suggested. They should develop a humane but lethal gas that could be used to get rid of undesirable groups.

GBS - spiritual godfather of the gas chambers.

Though on second thoughts I don't think that the name itself should have any particularly negative connotations (it's not as if you're going to call him Adolf) and if you used the French spelling (Fabien ?) there would be no connection to the British Fabians anyway.

It is rather a nice name.