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Merging and explanation...

I see there's a proposal to join Friendly society with Fraternal benefit society and there is also another article Benefit society. I have no idea which if any of these is a general description of the New Orleans Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs that are associated with second line parades. (The term is also used for Krewes, but is that something different again? I'm thinking there's a distinction between the original organization and the event it stages?) Can somebody sort this out who really understands these things? Wnt (talk) 20:41, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Origins

Just a heads up to anyone who might add a section on history/origins of Friendly Societies.

Dugald Stewart said in his Lectures on Political Economy (c. 1801) that

I allude to the institutions commonly known by the name of Benefit Clubs, or Friendly Societies. The general object of these institutions is, to secure to the industrious from the surplus, or a part of the surplus, of their earnings, an equivalent resource during their incapacity to labour. This idea, although I have not the least doubt that, in this country, it was the genuine offspring of English good sense and sagacity, was not altogether unthought of by the ancients. Causaubon produces ample evidence to shew, that there were, among the Athenians, and also in the other states of Greece, associations where each member deposited every month, in the common chest, a certain sum, for aiding such of their associates as met with any misfortune. Gronovius, too, seems to prove that the same plan was followed in Rome. The truth is, that the general idea of such establishments, however happy in itself, and important in its consequences, is not of so difficult a nature but that it may be expected to present itself to mankind in every civilized society, where they happen to be pressed by the same evils. From a Memoir by M. Dupont de Nemours, it appears that various establishments of this kind had sprung up spontaneously in differents parts of France among the lower orders.

So at least back then they were considered to be long-standing form of mutual aid, granted that there was a proliferation of such societies in the period.

--Sansculotte93 (talk) 14:07, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I added the links to www.FriendlySocieties.org and www.LibertarianSocieties.org please delete it if you think they aren't worth to mention but I think they fit very well. And please foregive me my mistakes, I'm very new here. -- MichalLeaf

Thanks for your contribution. I visited both links but I think it is too early to add them. They are new organisations with (as far as I can tell) no members. -- Wire723 (talk) 17:51, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]