Fabian History Lesson

This Cinders of a blog does not get enough passing trade to refer to its ‘readership‘, ( although unlike Liberal Conspiracy, readers are slightly more populous than writers ), .If it had a readership, though , they might have noticed mention of Sunder Katwala ,the General Secretary of Fabian Society
“ Fabian Society ?” ,you say ,“Is that really still going ? ”. Yes , like Bernard Cribbins and the Commonwealth , it is 'un-dead' , shall we say ,and well placed to provide a historical perspective .Take Nick Robinson’s ‘Brown putsch ’ howler …
“….a man or woman who has not been elected ...would replace a man who has himself not been elected by the public. This is without precedent -”
The GC ( as I will now refer to Sunder),quibbled thusly …“.the Conservative government resigned, and let the Liberals govern, in December 1905 (,blah blah) ..Arthur Balfour was selected, without a General Election, in 1902 to replace his Uncle Lord Salisbury as PM, and that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman replaced him as Prime Minister in 1905 …” . Virtually standard practice then....
I must be fair the GC intended self deprecating humour , he is not bad chap . I only mention it to demonstrate his acute his sense of history informing the present .All the more worrying that this must include his employers , an organisation avowedly committed to Machiavellian deceit ,and with a Nietzschean contempt for ordinary people
Lets start with Fabian number 1, Sidney Webb , usually mentioned with Beatrice . The Webbs supported Soviet Union until their death and wrote uncritically of Stalin's during agricultural collectivisation purges and the gulag system. Not afraid to break a few eggs to make an omelette then.
This is never more obvious than when they turn to eugenics , a great enthusiasm of most prominent Fabians . Sidney laid it out clearly “ No consistent eugenicist can be laissez faire… he must interfere interfere interfere”. He worried that the, ”wrong people “ were outbreeding the “right ones “ which he feared would cause the country to fall to the “Irish or the Jews”. Sweet sweet man , no wonder he is so venerated by the left
Comrade Wells ( HG) supported the extermination of the “Darker races”… to create the New Republic he said “ swarms of black , brown and dirty white and yellow people would have to go” ..” and “ It is in the sterilisation of failure and not the selection of success for breeding , that the possibility of an improvement to human stock lies”
Brother Shaw (GB) was similarly enamoured .“ The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of Man” he declared . He advocated the abolition of marriage and its replacement with eugenically acceptable polygamy under the auspices of the “Department of Evolution”. He further recommend a “Husband stud Farm”, to eliminate the “Yahoo , whose vote would wreck the Commonwealth".For criminal and undesirable elements were to be placed .." in a lethal chamber and get rid of them”
Pah ..I can hear them saying , Pah pah ! Shaw was an entertainer a polemicist we do not take him seriously . Harder to say that about the lately exhumed John Maynard Keynes who served on the British Eugenics societies board of Directors in 1945..yes that’s 1945 a time when the horrors Nazi experiments were known to him. The New Statesman (founded by Webb) and the Manchester Guardian were also supporters to one extent or another as was Harold Laski Julian Huxley and many many more.
Now I am not saying Sunder Katwala , I mean the GC ,supports a programme of sterilisation and slaughter for our own good ,but his keen sense of history will surely detect ,as I do, that the instinct to “Interfere interfere interfere” as Webb put it , is unabated in Fabian and progressive thinking . My wish to remain unimproved remains indefatigable and the bad news is Sunder..I`m breeding !