| Who was Beatrice Webb? | Beatrice Webb was a founding member of the Fabian Society and, with Sidney Webb, wrote the original Clause 4 of the Labour Party’s constitution. |
| What was the original Clause Four? | The original Clause Four pledged that Labour would “secure for the workers by hands or by brains the full fruits of their industry.” It also committed the party to gaining “the most equitable distribution therefore that may be possible upon the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.” |
| What society was Webb a founding member of? | the Fabian Society |
| What does the Fabian society believe about socialist change? | Fabians believe that an incremental approach to change on the basis of socialist principles is preferable to the bloodshed and chaos implied by revolutionary figures on the far-left. |
| What does Webbs as a Fabian believe about the role of the state? | The Fabian mindset also prescribes an expansion in the role of the state rather than its overthrow by the proletariat. |
| What type of socialist was Webb? | Social democrat |
| Key quote form Webb? | Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others. |
