Fabianism

[TheWaffleCzar]

So I've spent quite a bit of time around this site. Those most interesting things that I've read include someone saying "So when is this revolution?" And then others saying things like "well it's more the fact that you need to join unions, and protest single issues... Thats why I get annoyed when people come around and get burned out, and so on..."
Could those other people, who see joining unions as a revolution per se be considered fabianists? I was reading up on it and it's very intriguing.

[I would post a link to the wikipedia article, but apparently I haven't posted more than 25 items]

[Oswy]

There are different approaches. Revolution doesn't have to be something that happens overnight, nor does it have to be something which occurs through violent conflict. It's possible to argue that we are experiencing something of an 'organic' revolution, as capitalism, through its crises and the liberal response to them, in a way which travels towards socialist goals. Not everyone here would agree, of course, and some would even see things like worker-rights, partial redistribution of wealth through taxation and the regulation of capitalism as processes which actually keep capitalism in control and inhibit the emergence of socialism. I think both sides of that argument have cases but as I'm a Gramsci fan I go with the organic revolution idea.