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Debate: Fabian Socialism vs. Radical Liberalism

In the late 19th century the classical liberal, free market orthodoxy was beginning to be challenged by socialists like George Bernard Shaw, who put together a collection of essays iin 1889 advocating greater intervention by the state in the economy. Unlike the Marxists, who desired revolutionary change, the "Fabian socialists" advocated incremental change through the parliamentary system. This volume provoked a reply by supporters of private property and laissez-faire economics led by Thomas Mackay.

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authors and editors   title ↑ pub. date  
editor: George Bernard Shaw, editor: Henry Gaylord Wilshire Fabian Essays in Socialism 1889
foreword: Jeffrey Paul, editor: Thomas Mackay, introduction: Herbert Spencer, author: Edward Stanley Robertson, author: Wordsworth Donisthorpe, author: George Howell, author: Charles Fairfield, author: Edmund Vincent, author: Rev. B.H. Alford, author: Arthur Raffalovich, author: Frederick Millar, author: M.D. O’Brien, author: F.W. Beauchamp Gordon, author: Auberon Herbert A Plea for Liberty: An Argument against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation (LF ed.) 1891
editor: Thomas Mackay A Policy of Free Exchange. Essays by Various Writers on the Economical and Social Aspects of Free Exchange and Kindred Subjects 1894