"Fabian anarchists"

[Os Cangaceiros]

I was browsing through a philosophy book recently, and I ran across a brief part about Marx and Lenin which described them as "Fabian anarchists".

I was just wondering if anyone else had heard this term before, and what, exactly, a "Fabian anarchist" refers to...

[Os Cangaceiros]

It was actually this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Philosophical-Mistakes-Mortimer-Adler/dp/068481868X/ref=pd_sim_b_img_2

[chimx]

I'm assuming they are referring to the Fabian Society in Britain, which was a reformist/social democrat movement. The label doesn't make sense though because Marxism predates Fabianism by nearly half a century I believe. I'm assuming that the book you are reading is British or at least western European, pretty old, probably written early 20th century and that the author was just using it to mean radical socialists or socialists with a revolutionary emphasis. I could be wrong though.

[JazzRemington]

And I always thought they were called Fabian socialists?

[Philosophical Materialist]

It is a rather clunky term. Fabians were much more radical in the early 20th Century, but they were still a bourgeois reformist outfit even then.

I'm guessing that the author doesn't really understand the various types of socialist philosophies. I imagine he has never read the Communist Manifesto.

I have never heard the term "Fabian Anarchists" before, it sounds like a contradiction.

[Kropotesta]

I can understand it, i reckon. so they both marx and lenin thought they could reach communism, a anarchist society, via the means of the state. however that would disregard their revolutionary ideas......bah

[Schrödinger's Cat]

I can understand it, i reckon. so they both marx and lenin thought they could reach communism, a anarchist society, via the means of the state. however that would disregard their revolutionary ideas......bah
Is English your native language? I'm just curious.

Marxism and revolutionary ideology are not contradictory - indeed separating the two would be a grave injustice. Marx and later Lenin knew/thought (which you prefer) the proletariat could not immediately achieve communism.

Fabian anarchism - could it be a radical branch to the Fabian society? But that would be its own contradiction. ;)

[Luís Henrique]

I wouldn't waste many neurones trying to understand it. It is a flawed reactionary book, the author most probably doesn't know what he is talking about. He just took two terms he finds derogatory, and combined them to dismiss Marx.

Luís Henrique