Fabian Månsson

Karl Fabian Månsson (1872 – 1938) was a Swedish Socialist 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 archipelago of Blekinge. 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 a journalist and a poet. In 1912 he was elected to the lower house of the Riksdag.

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-democratic 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 birth place of Hasslö.