Guild socialism

The Guild socialism is a Dating back to the early 20th century, particularly in England, Austria and Germany move to a socialist economic reform, based on the guild thoughts. The professionals should manage the means of production itself - in so called guilds, the medieval professional organizations were simulated. Precursor of guild socialism were the French syndicalism, the British Owenism, and cooperative theory. The guild socialism was drafted mainly by GDH Cole. Characterized the guild socialism is equally a rejection of centralized planned economy and market economy. In contrast to syndicalism, the goods should not be on the market, but to be replaced by a politically administrated system in the guild system. Among the practical implications of guild socialism, the success of Baugilden after the First World War in England is expected, however, the subsided again back in the early 1920s. The ideas of guild socialism were particularly taken up in the Austro-Marxism. Otto Bauer she expected to a non-representative functional democracy because the government would be controlled by the summarized by occupation and place of work citizens. In the opinion of Count Harry Kessler, the guild socialism combines the idea of ​​freedom with a cooperative view of the structure of society and the state, as it was represented by Otto von Gierke and Léon Duguit. Karl Polanyi was also strongly influenced by Cole and his idea of ​​guild socialism, which was reflected in the early 1920s in several written in Hungarian essays.