Political Science · Political Theory
Which type of socialism supports the idea of labour associations and unions to achieve a socialist society in England?
AFabianism
BGuild socialism ✓ Correct
CRevisionism
DGerman Social Democracy
Correct answer: (B) Guild socialism — Guild socialism relied on associations of workers, the guilds, to build socialism in England, so the answer is guild socialism.
Explanation
★Guild socialism relied on associations of workers, the guilds, to build socialism in England, so the answer is guild socialism.
★It proposed that self-governing guilds of producers should run each industry.
★Workers would control production directly while the state managed the wider community.
★G. D. H. Cole was its leading theorist in early twentieth century Britain.
★It combined the syndicalist trust in unions with a continuing role for the state.
★Fabianism by contrast worked through the state and gradual parliamentary reform.
★German Social Democracy and revisionism developed on the European continent, not in this English guild form.
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