Mamdani’s Socialism: You May Be “Executed in a Kindly Manner,” Fabian Style?

Zohran Mamdani has eclipsed Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) as the face of the Democratic Socialists of America, and established the DSA as a national force to be reckoned with. The DSA’s militant socialism with a kinder, gentler face is proving attractive to low-information voters and the various grievance lobbies, and will have a considerable impact on the 2026 midterm elections.

The DSA Pedigree

Still, the average American voter knows next to nothing about the DSA’s origins and influences. Here is an abbreviated DSA pedigree that you won’t find at ancestry.com or in the pages of The New York Times:

• The Fabian Society was founded in England in 1884.
• The Fabian Society begat the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) in the United States in 1905.
• The Intercollegiate Socialist Society begat the League for Industrial Democracy (LID) in 1921.
• The League for Industrial Democracy begat the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) in 1935.
• The Student League for Industrial Democracy begat the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1960.
• The Students for a Democratic Society begat the Weather Underground (WU) terrorists in 1969.
• The Students for a Democratic Society, together with the Socialist Party USA, begat the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) in 1973.
• The Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, together with the Communist Party USA, begat the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in 1982.

Fabian Socialists

It is worth noting that the DSA is following the blueprint laid down by the Fabian Socialists, who have been the brains and the manipulative power behind Britain’s Labour Party for more than a century. Fully aware that Britain was not ready for Bolshevik-style revolutionary socialism, they opted for the patient gradualism of evolutionary socialism, employing a strategy of “penetration and permeation” of British society and institutions.

The Fabians, privileged intellectual elites, are infamous for exploiting fake concern for the poor and the “downtrodden masses” to accumulate power in government. One of the most famous Fabian founders was playwright/author George Bernard Shaw, whose play Pygmalion became the stupendously successful stage play and movie My Fair Lady. It’s hard to believe that the creator of such delightful entertainment could be an incredibly calloused advocate of mass murder by the socialist state. Oh, but he assured us, it would be “kindly” mass murder — for the good of society. Here’s how he explained it in his 1928 book The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism:

I contended that poverty should be neither pitied as an inevitable misfortune, nor tolerated as a just retribution for misconduct, but resolutely stamped out and prevented from recurring as a disease fatal to human society. I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under Socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

How’s that for a nugget of compassion?! Shaw wrote that in 1928, after the mass-murdering rampages of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin in Soviet Russia were already well known. In 1931, three years after publishing that vile screed, Shaw visited Stalin’s Soviet Union. There he celebrated his 75th birthday and was grandly feted by the Soviet commissars. It turned into a major propaganda coup for the communist tyrant. Shaw described the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) as a “land of hope,” in contrast to the capitalist “Western countries of despair.”

There’s more. Economist Thomas Sowell wrote:

Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw included the working class among the “detestable” people who “have no right to live.” He added: “I should despair if I did not know that they will all die presently, and that there is no need on earth why they should be replaced by people like themselves.”

Sidney & Beatrice Webb: Founding Fabians

If anyone upstaged Shaw in fawning over Stalin’s communist paradise it was Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Fabian Society founders and among its most prolific authors and outspoken activists. They went on a two-month pilgrimage to the Soviet Union in 1932, and returned there in 1933 for another Potemkin Village tour. Their 1935 book Soviet Communism: A New Civilization went over the top glorifying Stalin and the Soviet gulag state, so much so that even many liberal reviewers and historians condemned it. However, there were plenty of those who sang their praises and echoed their pro-Soviet Fabian propaganda line.

The Fabian-ISS-LID-SLID-SDS-WU-DSOC-DSA lineage matters. Murderous “compassion” and “kindness” is in their bloodline, their DNA. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

For an in-depth study of the Fabians, see Fabian Freeway: High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A. This incredibly detailed 1966 expose by Rose L. Martin is now back in print. See also these articles: here, here, here, and here.