The Fabian strategy takes its name from Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucous, the Roman dictator given the task of defeating the great Carthaginian General Hannibal in southern Italy during the Second Punic War (218-201 BC). Essentially, the Fabian strategy is a military strategy where grand battles and frontal assaults are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of attrition and indirection. 
The party employing the Fabian strategy believes that time is on its side and badgers the enemy through skirmishes to cause attrition, disrupt supply lines and debilitate morale. To defeat Hannibal, Fabius avoided engaging him in grand battles to deprive Hannibal the propaganda value of major victories and to wear down his endurance. In American history, General George Washington made good use of the Fabian strategy to harass the British, and in Russia the Fabian strategy was used against Napoleon’s Grand Armée.
In 1884, the Fabian Society was founded in London with the explicit goal of advancing socialism via gradual reforms in democracies rather than by revolutionary overthrow. To this day, the Fabian Society exerts significant influence in British politics, for example, former Prime Minister Tony Blair is a member. The Society’s logo is a tortoise representing the group’s preference for a slow, unnoticeable transition to socialism. Interestingly, the original coat of arms of the Fabian Society was a wolf in sheep’s clothing indicating the group’s strategy for achieving its goals.
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In 1831, a French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville was commissioned to travel to the United States of America and report back on its prison systems. Once he arrived, however, Tocqueville became broadly fascinated with the upstart nation. Spending nine months in the U.S., Tocqueville richly observed the American people and America’s political system. His observations were published in two volumes, in 1835 and 1840, titled Democracy in America. Many things intrigued Tocqueville about America, and one of those was the practice of the Catholic faith in early America. Tocqueville’s insights ring true even today.
Muchas universidades están ejerciendo una notable presión ideológica de tendencias socialistas sobre su profesorado en Estados Unidos y en otras partes, hasta el punto de bloquear la carrera académica de muchos que se atreven a expresar ideas distintas de las que son consideradas "políticamente correctas" y también sobre los estudiantes amenazados con reprobar por manifestar posturas críticas al discurso oficial.
El nivel de consagración y de concentración del poder en manos de Xi solo es comparable con el que tuvo el Gran Timonel Mao Zedong durante el período del «culto a la personalidad» o el de los grandes emperadores de la milenaria Historia china. Razón por la cual el calificativo de emperador no es exagerado ni peyorativo en el caso del camarada Xi.
general del Comité Central del Partido Comunista chino desde el 15 de noviembre de 2012, presidente de la Comisión Militar Central desde el 15 de marzo de 2013 y presidente de la República Popular de China desde 2013.