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Bernard Shaw gave the vital power in British circle where was inactive through work activity from the end of 19th century to the beginning of 20th. Shaw was one of the leaders as a member of the execution committee in the Fabian Society. In taking active part in the Fabian Society, Shaw wrote Fabian Essays with Sydney Webb. Shaw insisted that the human institution must meet the flexibility accompanying with the ascending movement of life and according to this need, fabianism was suggested to overcome the weakness of the capitalism and the remove the illusion of the socialism.
Fabianism was formulated from the ethical attitudes obtained from the inversion of capitalistic logic and optional addition of economical knowledge from Marx, Ricardo, and Adam Smith as well as the influence upon J. S. Mill and Robert Owen. Shaw was greatly influenced by Henry George in the realization of socialistic policy as the criticism of the capitalism.
In the Fabian Essays and his dramas Shaw's wish was the formation of beneficial agency organization which synthesized ill-balanced produce in a region and distribute it as residents' effort, and he found that the land rent was the capitalistic toxin of the capitalism. Shaw tried gradual reformation through the permeation into liberalists. Those days he pointed out socialists' illusion boldly. He recognized that success or failure of a nation's organization depends on how people operate it and found the realistic method of mass production of gentlemen class. But Shaw recognized that human remodeling needs a considerable time because men are accustomed to the traditional method of life and thinking. The presentation of Shaw's superman as the subject who can create and manage a new way of life and improved world may be connected with the progress will of Shaw's Life Force. The situation improvement and the evolutionary development should be the task simultaneously driven, so we can think that permeation and the general progression present the basic principles of Shaw's idea and the literature actively.
It is reasonable that Shaw's socialistic thought is spiritual rather than material. Shaw's recognition that no one can reform himself before the society would develop upwards and reform itself is humanistic.