The Minority Report, Syndicalism and Research:
1909-15

The emergence of Mrs. Sidney Webb--The Poor Law Commission--The
Minority Report--Unemployment--The National Committee for the
Prevention of Destitution--"Vote against the House of
Lords"--Bernard Shaw retires--Death of Hubert Bland--Opposition to
the National Insurance Bill--The Fabian Reform Committee--The "New
Statesman"--The Research Department--"The Rural Problem"--"The
Control of Industry"--Syndicalism--The Guildsmen--Final
Statistics--The War


Chapter XII

The Lessons of Thirty Years

Breaking the spell of Marxism--A French verdict--Origin of
Revisionism in Germany--The British School of Socialism--Mr. Ernest
Barker's summary--Mill _versus_ Marx--The Fabian Method--Making
Socialists or making Socialism--The life of propagandist
societies--The prospects of Socialist Unity--The future of Fabian
ideas--The test of Fabian success


Appendix I

A. On the History of Fabian Economics. By Bernard Shaw

B. On Guild Socialism. By Bernard Shaw