FOOTNOTES: 

[43] “La Societe Fabienne et le Mouvement socialiste anglais contemporain.”  By Edouard Pfeiffer, Paris, F. Giard and E. Briere, 1911; an excellent volume but full of errors.

[44] “The Fabians were the first amongst Socialists to start the movement of anti-Marxist criticism.  At a period when the dogmas of the Master were regarded as sacred, the Fabians ventured to assert that it was possible to call oneself a Socialist without ever having read ’Das Kapital,’ or without accepting its doctrine.  In opposition to Marx, they have revived the spirit of J.S.  Mill, and they have attacked Marx all along the line—­the class war, the economic interpretation of history, the catastrophic method, and above all the theory of value.”

[45] Published in English by the Independent Labour Party in 1909 as “Evolutionary Socialism.”

[46] Address to the International, 1862, quoted from Spargo’s “Karl Marx,” p. 266.

[47] Home University Library, Williams and Norgate, 1915, 1s.

[48] M. Beer, “Geschichte des Socialismus in England” (Stuttgart, 1913), p. 462.  Mr. Beer devotes seven pages to the Society, which he describes with accuracy, and interprets much as Mr. Barker has done.  The book was written at the request of the German Social Democratic Party.

[49] I quote, but do not endorse the opinion that G.B.S. markedly resembles James Mill (Mr. Barker confuses the two Mills).  Beer adds “Webb was the thinker, Shaw the fighter.”  This antithesis is scarcely happy.  The collaboration of the two is much too complicated to be summed up in a phrase.

[50] But see chapter VIII for its influence before 1906; and see Appendix 1.  A. for a much fuller discussion of this subject.

[51] The same idea is expressed by a Canadian Professor:—­

“It is necessary to go back to the Philosophical Radicals to find a small group of men who have exercised such a profound influence over English political thought as the little band of social investigators who organised the Fabian Society.”

“Socialism:  a critical analysis.”  By O.D.  Skelton, Ph.D., Professor of Economic Science, Kingston, Canada. (Constable, 1911.) p. 288.

[52] Mr. Barker erroneously uses the word “increment” for “income” in several places.  Unearned increment is quite another thing.

[53] See “Socialism and Superior Brains:  a reply to Mr. Mallock,” by G.B.  Shaw.  Fabian Tract 146.

[54] Mr. Barker emphasises the “discrimination advocated by the Fabians” in favour of profits in a later passage (p. 224) not here quoted.

[55] This should read “incomes.”

[56] “Faults of the Fabian,” p. 9.

[57] See Appendix I. B.

Appendix I

Memoranda by Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw has been good enough to write the following memoranda on Chapter XII.  For various reasons I prefer to leave that chapter as it stands; but the memoranda have an interest of their own and I therefore print them here.