guild socialism
Industrial democracy movement
Guild socialism is a political theory proposing that workers should control industry through democratic guilds rather than through state ownership or private capitalism.
Developed in early 20th-century Britain, it envisioned self-governing associations of workers in each trade managing production, with the state limited to representing consumers.
The movement declined after World War I but influenced later cooperative and syndicalist thought.
- cooperativesMember-owned collective enterprises
- common ownershipShared control of assets
- syndicalismUnion-led worker ownership theory
- trade unionsWorker collectives for negotiations
- shop floorIndustrial production workspace
William Morris · worker councils · worker cooperatives · mutualism · communal ownership · collective bargaining · medieval guilds · profit-sharing · social justice · self-management · labor movement · working class · workplace democracy · participatory democracy · production · trade · labor · workers
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- socialismMarxism, communism, proletariat, bourgeoisie, communal ownership
- leftismMarxism, communism, leftist, socialist, anarchism
- Leftist IdeologiesMarxism, communism, Leninism, Maoism, Stalinism
- Syndicalismsyndicates, Wobblies, worker control, direct action, general strike
- arts and craftspottery, collage, woodcarving, origami, weaving
guild socialismneoliberalism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
anarcho-capitalism · classical liberalism · corporate capitalism · plutocracy · Thatcherism
guild socialismstate socialism
Government owns production means
Marxism-Leninism · centralized planning · central planning · corporate hierarchy · command economy