Guild Socialism (GuildSoc) is a left unity to libertarian ideology that advocates for worker ownership of the Means of Production through trade guilds, and that such guilds have "an implied contractual relationship with the public". It originated in the United Kingdom in 1914 with the book "National Guilds: An Inquiry into the Wage System and the Way Out" in wich S. G. Hobson (the author) presents guilds as an alternative to state socialism. Guild socialism believes in democratic workplaces and varies on government types.
History
Guild Socialism took inspiration from the Guild system of the Middle Ages, in which worker-owned guilds played a big role in the economy. Likewise, it criticized the capitalist hierarchy and the wage system, believing that the laborer has no rights under the system, thus calling for a decentralized economy consisting of worker guilds. Likewise it acknowledges the differences of conditions back then and in the present day, mainly in how said industry functions and how town-economies have become all but impossible in the modern day.
What sets Guild Socialism apart from other forms of socialism is how the guildsmen is to maintain the apprehension in the framing of social arrangements, and how the economy would consist of guilds, mainly on the local level but also some on the national level, which would serve to include workers of all areas of whichever sector said guild represents.
Likewise, it criticizes both Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination State Socialism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Syndicalism as leaving open the possibility of tyranny, and likewise Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination G.D.H. Cole believed that the Bolshevik Revolution and Lenin himself “replaced the capitalist state with an equally as coercive state”, as said in his book “Guild Socialism: A Plan For Economic Democracy”.
It also takes elements from both a socialistic market economy and decentral planning, acknowledging markets in the regards to consumer goods, but opposes markets when in regards to civic and essential services, utilizing a communal structure under which guilds serve as a basis for hiring and firing as well as operating under a mostly direct democratic system, though on occasions, a meritocratic and expertise vote would be utilized as well
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Relationships
Friends
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Christian Socialism - Best bud.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Catholic Workerism - Good friend of mine.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Agrarian Socialism - My rural counterpart.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Thalassocracy - Merchant republics were based.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Castroism - He's a bit stubborn but he's learning my ways.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Distributism - My religious son who denies being a socialist.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Market Socialism - The right way to have both markets and equality, but there shouldn't be a competitive market in civic services.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Conservative Socialism - Yeah, I know I'm a bit old-fashioned too.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Socialism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Market Socialism - I too am an enthusiast of a truly decentral and democratic economy.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic Socialism - Fellow enjoyer of economic democracy, but I doubt if working with the system would really achieve anything.
Frenemies
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Syndicalism - Alright. But unions are kinda lame though.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination State Socialism - Alright. But state control's pretty lame too.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Council Communism - Alright. But workers' councils are also lame.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Strasserism - Similar economics but quit it with the Nazi shit.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Corporatism - Also has similar ideas, but still way to centralized.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Fabian Socialism - Cole was a Fabien, but why Eugenics?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Mercantilism - You like guilds too but cool it with the capitalism.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Reactionary Socialism - Dad's pretty cool but really needs to tone it down.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Yellow Socialism - He likes some of my ideas but he doesn't like guilds that much.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Leninism - You know, I agree that the current system should be overthrown for the better, it's just that what you propose shares the same coercion that the current system promotes, and I hate it.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Democracy - Look man, there really isn't any economic democracy under capitalism, despite how hard you try to achieve that by working with it.
Enemies
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Capitalism - The "democracy" you represent under your systematic rule is merely a facade to hide the fact that in actuality, it's an unfair hierarchy where the laborer is denied his rights shrouded under a false consciousness.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neoliberalism - Doesn't like guilds or unions.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Third Way Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination - Not New Labour, Blue Labour.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Socialism - I dont understand what are you?!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Corporatocracy - He wants to drive us out of business.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcho-Capitalism - Why dont you wanna join a guild?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxism–Leninism - Your
central plannedcommand economy is pretty cringe. - Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcho-Communism - Nothing personal but you're very disorganized.
Further Information
Literature
- The Restoration of the Gild System by Arthur Joseph Penty
- A Guildsman’s Interpretation of History. by Arthur J Penty
- Guilds, Trade And Agriculture by Arthur J Penty
- Guild Socialism Re-Stated by G.D.H. Cole
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