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About Fabian Månsson
- Karl Fabian Månsson (1872–1938) was a Swedish politician.
- In his youth, Månsson used the pseudonym Dacke, a name he borrowed from the 16th century peasant rebel Nils Dacke.
- Fabian Månsson was born in a poor family in Hasslö, an island in the Blekinge archipelago.
- His father was a fisherman.
- Fabian Månsson worked as a navvy and became active as a radical in the Social Democratic Party, for which he also worked as an agitator, a journalist and a poet.
- In 1912 he was elected to the lower house of the Riksdag to where he was reelected until his death.
- When the Social Democratic Party was split in 1917, Månsson who always opposed centralistic rule joined the radical, revolutionary group which formed the Social Democratic Left Party.
- However, Månsson opposed communism and left the new party when its leader, Zeth Höglund, moved the party into joining the Communist International.
- Fabian Månsson decided to rejoin the Social Democratic Party, but continued to scrutinize it from a radical angle.
- Månsson wrote several historical works, including a three-volume work on Nils Dacke.
- He was made honorary Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Uppsala in 1932.
- His younger comrade Fredrik Ström wrote a biography about him, simply called Fabian (1948).
- Today there is a statue of Fabian Månsson erected at his birthplace of Hasslö, and a bust outside Stockholm City Library.
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