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One of Cole's greatest strengths as an historian of socialism is that he himself has long been a part of the movement and has a fine "feel" for its aims and problems and controversies. This quality should manifest itself to best advantage in relation to the last five decades, for it is during this period that Cole has played a
Dec 21, 2021 · G.D.H. Cole was one of the leading intellectuals of the British Labour movement in the first half of the twentieth century, ranking with Harold Laski and R.H. Tawney. Through his enormous output of books, articles and pamphlets, he became one of the best-known socialists in the world.
Jan 1, 2018 · Abstract. A British socialist intellectual, G.D.H. Cole was born in Cambridge in 1889. He grew up in London and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. As a young Oxford don, Cole came to prominence during the second decade of the century as a leading advocate of guild socialism (a doctrine of workers’ control in industry) and adviser to the ...
Dec 4, 2016 · The origins of Guild Socialism are customarily traced to 1906 and the publication by Arthur J. Penty of The Restoration of the Gild System. Penty’s advocacy of a return to a handicraft economy and the control of production by trade gilds looks back, beyond Morris, to—as he cheerfully indicates—Ruskin.
- David Goodway
- 2016
Cole’s own contribution to socialist thought is discussed through his writings on Guild Socialism and his opposition to the centralising creeds of Marxism-Leninism and Social Democracy, which dominated the politics of the Left in the decades after the First World War.
George Douglas Howard Cole (25 September 1889 – 14 January 1959) was an English political theorist, economist, historian, and novelist. As a believer in common ownership of the means of production, he theorised guild socialism (production organised through worker guilds).
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Sep 15, 2014 · G. D. H. Cole was a British political theorist, academic, and activist. He is best known for his theory of guild socialism which was influential in Britain in the late 1910s and early 1920s, and has been intermittently revisited by those seeking an alternative to state-centered socialism.
