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Arthur Joseph Penty (1875 –1937) was a British architect, and writer on Guild socialism and distributism. Year 1875 ( MDCCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Guild socialism is a political movement advocating workers' control of industry through the medium of trade-related Guilds. Distributism, also known as distributionism and distributivism, is a third-way economic philosophy formulated by such Roman Catholic He was first a Fabian socialist, and follower of Victorian thinkers William Morris and John Ruskin[1]. The Fabian Society is a British Intellectual Socialist movement whose purpose is to advance the principles of Social democracy via Gradualist William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896 was an English Architect, Furniture and Textile designer artist writer and socialist associated John Ruskin (8 February 1819 &ndash 20 January 1900 is best known for his work as an Art critic, sage writer, and Social critic, but is remembered He is generally credited with the formulation of a Christian socialist form of the medieval guild, as an alternative basis for economic life. Christian socialism generally refers to those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and Socialist and who see these two philosophies as A guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers

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Early life

Around 1900, working in his father's architectural practice in Leeds, he met A. R. Orage; with Holbrook Jackson they founded the Leeds Arts Club. Leeds ( is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England Alfred Richard Orage (born January 22 1873 Dacre Yorkshire England - died November 6 1934 London was a British Intellectual, now best known for editing the magazine George Holbrook Jackson (1874 - 1948 was a British journalist writer and publisher The Leeds Arts Club was founded in 1903 by the Leeds school teacher Alfred Orage and Yorkshire textile manufacture Holbrook Jackson, and was All three moved to London in 1905 and 1906; Penty in fact led the way, and Orage lodged with him in his first attempts to live by writing.

Influence

For a time, from 1906, Penty's ideas were widely influential. Orage, as editor of The New Age, was a convert to guild socialism. The New Age was a British Literary magazine, noted for its wide influence under the editorship of A Guild socialism is a political movement advocating workers' control of industry through the medium of trade-related Guilds. After World War I guild socialism dropped back as a factor in the thinking of the British Labour movement, in general; the idea of post-industrialism, on which Penty wrote, attributing the term to A. K. Coomaraswamy, receded in importance in the face of the economic conditions. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All A post-industrial society is a society in which an economic transition has occurred from a manufacturing based economy to a service based economy, a diffusion Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (ஆனந்த குமாரசுவாமி 22 August, 1877, Colombo - 9 September, 1947, Several of Penty's books were translated into German in the early 1920s. Penty was an acknowledged influence of the Spanish writer Ramiro de Maeztu (1875-1936). Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney ( May 4, 1875 - October 29, 1936) was a Spanish political theorist journalist literary critic and member

Penty the distributist

The somewhat complex British development of distributism emerged as a conjuncture of ideas of Penty, Hilaire Belloc and the Chestertons Cecil and Gilbert. Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 &ndash 16 July 1953 was a French -born Writer who became a Naturalised British subject Cecil Edward Chesterton ( November 12, 1879 – December 6, 1918) was an English Journalist, known particularly for his Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936 was an influential English writer of the early 20th century It reflected in part a first split from the Fabian socialists of the whole New Age group, in the form of the Fabian Arts Group of 1907.

Orage was a believer in Guild socialism for a period. After C. H. Douglas met Orage in 1918, and Orage invented the term Social Credit for the Douglas theories, there was in effect a further split into 'left' (Social Crediters) and 'right' (distributist) thinkers. Major C H (Clifford Hugh Douglas MIMechE MIEE ( January 20 1879 &ndash September 29 1952), was a British Engineer and pioneer Social Credit is a socio-economic Philosophy wherein Consumers fully provided with adequate Purchasing power, establish the policy of production This is, though, fairly misleading as a classification; it was also to some extent a split between theosophist and Catholic camps. This article is about the philosophy introduced by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". Penty associated with the Catholic Ditchling Community[2]. The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic was an Art colony and experiment in communal life in early 20th century England

“ By a curious coincidence the arrival of Douglas reproduced for a moment the old trio of Jackson, Orage and Penty, who ten years before had come from Leeds to London to launch the Fabian Arts Group. George Holbrook Jackson (1874 - 1948 was a British journalist writer and publisher Jackson soon dropped away after introducing Douglas to Orage; but Penty [. . . ] engaged in a long struggle with this rival, Douglas, to recapture the interest of Orage. [. . . ] The hold of Penty over Orage was finally broken, and the architect was left to ponder his theories alone, ending in the thirties as Pound was to end in forties, an admirer of Mussolini. [3] ”

Penty went with the distributists[4]. Distributism in the 1920s took its own direction, as Belloc wrote his version of it in the period 1920 to 1925 and connected it with his political theories. The British Labour Party declared against Social Credit in 1922. Social Credit is a socio-economic Philosophy wherein Consumers fully provided with adequate Purchasing power, establish the policy of production

Works

References

Notes

  1. ^ Stephen Dorril, Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism, p. 73, calls Penty a disciple of Morris.
  2. ^ PDF, obituary of Michael Penty (1916-2002), son of Arthur.
  3. ^ J. P. Carswell, Lives and Letters (1978), p. John Patrick Carswell CB FRSL ( 30 May 1918 - 12 November 1997) was an English Civil servant and 148.
  4. ^ MJP Text Viewer
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