Some historical facts about establishing of the Fabian society

Scientific interest in socialistic ideas becomes stronger 25 years later, after USSR was demolished. The issue about positive and negative aspects of socialist theory and practice both is still discussible. Taking into account the level of development of economic and social relations in the United Kingdom as one of the most advanced capitalist countries of the nineteenth- twentieth century, the special interest in the study is the history of English political and legal thought in this period. The article describes some historical facts about establishing of the Fabian Society - British radical socialist organization, which has had a powerful influence on British politics. The main issue in the article is: whose interests were represented by Fabian socialists - the working masses or the major capitalists? Historical-genetic, system-structural, comparative-historical methods were used as methods of scientific research. The article examines the publicly proclaimed goals of the creation of the Fabian society, which are compared with the possible hidden motives and aspirations of fabianists. An attempt is made to determine the essence of political and legal ideas of Fabian society. The criticism of their doctrine as pseudo-religious socialist utopia is given. In the article reveals bonds of the Fabians with the largest media barons, industrialists, and politicians of the liberal capitalist sense of England and the United States, such as Arthur Balfour, Lord Rosebery, Julius Wernher, Lord Rothschild, Edward Hulton, Alfred Milner, Cecil Rhodes, Passmore Edwards, Richard Cobden and others. Reveals associated organizations, such as the London School of Economics, the liberal-capitalist political movement «Manchester school», Milner Group, the Cobden Club, Coefficients Dining Club, the Great Western and Grand Trunk Railways of England and Canada, Pall Mall Gazette, New York Tribune, Edinburgh Review, Sunday Chronicle etc. As a result it is concluded that the Fabian society represented capitalist interests under the guise of socialist ideas