No.1503
This is my first time posting and I had an idea
Could freelancing be used as a tool for communism?
I'm writing my first politial book and I think we could pull a new age of communism that can survive both politically and financially using a freelancing system to not only get work done around a union (assuming we have a country that is using this) and boosting industrys without causing true competition.
Lets say the the union is low on lumber we move our attention to the lumber guild ( I say guild because it would be a lumber company that is pretty much run {powerwise} by the union.)
So not only do we get a boost in the economy (brining more money into the country) Boosts living standards by a little bit (Large amounts of people will get paid or somekinda reward for their efforts)
I'm just spit balling more ideas with freelancing since I've made my own freelance guild and I've been helping out as many people as I can. Finding jobs for friends,strangers and even a few homeless people that had degrees in english or math but just simply coudn't find a job.
What does /marx/ think of a communism themed freelancing? is it possible or am I really just a half hearted communist/capitalist
No.1506
1970s Great Soviet Encyclopedia:
>The founders of guild socialism were members of the Fabian Society, including G. Cole, A. Penty, and W. Mellor. They established the National Guilds League in 1914 and worked out the program of guild socialism. It combined the traditional structures of Fabian reformism with several positions from anarcho-syndicalism. In its theories, guild socialism presents the transition from capitalism to socialism as a gradual process of supplanting capitalist monopolies by transferring nationalized industries to the control of national guilds, which are associations of workers engaged in a particular branch of the economy. The system of guilds as a democratic and self-governing “association of producers” complemented the state system, which the advocates of guild socialism regarded as an “association of consumers.” The Utopian ideas of guild socialism, which denied revolutionary methods of struggle, did not become widespread among the broad working masses in the face of the revolutionary upsurge after World War I (1914-18), and the guild supporters were also unsuccessful in their attempts to realize their theories in practice (primarily in the building trade). In the 1920’s, guild socialism disappeared from the political arena.
No.1509
What you'e doing sounds admirable. However, communism requires the abolition of commodity production. Production according to needs rather than production in order to sell. How could this be acheived with your system?
No.1523
If what you're implying is union-socialism I would suggest looking into De-leon's stuff
or even anarcho-syndicalism if that turns out to be attractive to you
Although if you're posing this as a question i'm not sure what you mean, communism themed freelancing? what?
to establish socialism the vanguard of workers(in whatever form it may be) must seize the means of production, trying to be more socialist under capitalism doesn't bring us closer to communism
No.1533
>>1523
>trying to be more socialist under capitalism doesn't bring us closer to communismThat's somewhat of a "left" deviation I think. We should try to help the working class and organize them and improve their living conditions to improve their class consciousness. By pushing for social democratic strides I think it sharpens the class strruggle and makes the proletariat more focused on opposing the bourgeoisie. Seizing the means of production is eventually necessary though.
No.1534
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>>1533The OP isn't proposing struggles for democratic and social gains though. He's literally trying to establish a sort of "socialism" within the confines of the bourgeois state and capitalist economy.