What is "guild socialism"?

[Ben Weissman]

How does it compare to anarcho-syndicalism?


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[The Idler]

If you're feeling generous you might say its what Labour party propagandist G. D. H. Cole (and R. H. Tawney) was in favour of. Presumably you've looked at the entry on Wikipedia? I think there was an article in The Idler more recently. Maybe this one
http://idler.co.uk/article/against-government-kropotkins-definition-of-anarchism/

[Mr. Piccolo]

In addition to G.D.H. Cole and R.H. Tawney you may want to look into the works of S.G. Hobson, particularly National Guilds: an Inquiry into the Wage System and a Way Out.

Another guild socialist was Arthur Penty, although if I recall correctly he was more of a medievalist and was perhaps closer to Catholic thinkers like Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton who supported a system know as Distributism.

Cole and Hobson were probably closer to syndicalism than Distributism so you would want to start with them I think.