In ~1910, a woman studying the French Revolution discovered that in the years leading up to it, new mystical beliefs were secretly sweeping thru the Royal Courts and Parlours of high-society Europe.
She stumbled on odd social connections & began mapping out the Social Network.
the DSA (making news currently for the socialist NYC mayoral candidate) is basically the Fabian Society. The strategy of the Fabian Society was gradual “socialist” conversion to communism instead of an abrupt and violent communist revolution
In the 1910s, this feminist historian (👇) put Fabians in her social-network maps
- https://archive.org/details/chart-accompanying-world-revolution-nesta-h-webster
- https://archive.org/details/20240214_20240214_0107/
- https://archive.org/details/TheSocialistNetworkNestaHelenWebster
