guild socialism
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Guild socialism was a British political and economic movement that advocated worker-controlled industrial guilds operating within a decentralized socialist framework.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
economic theory
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political ideology → socialist movement → |
| associatedWith |
A. R. Orage
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G. D. H. Cole → National Guilds League → S. G. Hobson → The New Age (magazine) → |
| coreIdea |
decentralized socialist framework
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self-governing industrial guilds → separation of political and industrial power → worker control of industry through industrial guilds → |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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| declineReason |
practical difficulties in implementation
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rise of other socialist currents in the Labour Party → |
| developedIn |
early 20th century
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| differsFrom |
Soviet-style central planning
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corporatism → |
| economicModel |
guilds manage production
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state represents consumers → |
| goal |
collective ownership with worker control
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elimination of wage slavery → |
| hasConcept |
consumer sovereignty through the state
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dual power of state and guilds → guild control of production → national guilds → |
| influenced |
labour movement debates in Britain
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later theories of industrial democracy → some strands of democratic socialism → |
| influencedBy |
British trade unionism
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Fabian socialism → medieval craft guilds → syndicalism → |
| opposes |
capitalist private ownership of industry
→
state socialism → |
| peakPeriod |
1910s
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early 1920s → |
| proposedBy |
G. D. H. Cole
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| relatedTo |
cooperative movement
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labourism → syndicalism → |
| supports |
functional representation in politics
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industrial democracy → public ownership of the means of production → workers’ self-management → |
Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Arts and Crafts movement
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associatedConcept |