The Hindu guild system can easily compete with Capitalism, Socialism & Fascism

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please forgive spelling/grammar errors - this article is practice, practice makes perfect, but the intentions behind this are real... i am not pretending this is the height of sophistication but it is a starting place upon which myself and others can expand refine...  movement in this direction is necessary and necessary now as we are in a transformation period and can either rise to the top or be dominated by our inferiors. 

How are Aryan Hindus going to gain political and intellectual traction in the world today?  Can we really grip the minds of foreigners with discourses on abstract philosophy?  Today's modern world is fast passed but above all else practical and pragmatic, people need to see the immediate value of your ideas and how they can be implemented right now.  We are trying to compete in the social, religious and political marketplace, so we should be asking ourselves what are other groups using to sell themselves?  Today, especially in America, the major political players are Judeo-Christian/Secular Capitalism and Secular Leftism, these are followed by Libertarianism and Fascism (Nazism/Alt-Right).  While all of these political groups do offer moral and philosophical doctrines, they are mostly centered around an economic message, with perhaps the exception of Nazism. These socio-economic-political ideologies win the hearts and minds of the people by comparing and contrasting themselves to each other, highlighting the material and social needs of the day, and then proffering their economic system as the solution to ills and the key to an advanced and prosperous future with logical and emotional polemic.  Today, it is likely that economics is one of if not the major deciding point when it comes to voting and party affiliation.  So what do Hindus have to offer in the realm of economics and how do we present our package so as to compete with Capitalists and Socialists and Libertarians and Fascists?

History Of Guilds In The West

The Guild System In The West

Before we can compare and contrast our economic ideology with others, we first must define our economic ideology is more or less precise terms but also highlight its fluid and nuanced elements. Simply stated, Hinduism advocates for a system which is at least historically understood by the West, and that is the Guild System, but this they only understand in its Christian and medieval context. Medieval Christian European Guilds were known to be large associations of craftspeople and merchants who held consider power over their industry and in society in general. Some examples of these were stone mason guilds who built temples and civic buildings, and food guilds such as grain and wheat guilds. These craft associations, or a few of them, especially in Europe, tended to monopolize a certain industry and product, setting standards and prices.  Due to their monopolistic nature and their power to influence politics, Christian European monarchs began programs to destroy the guilds by offering top members patents in guild products and technologies so as to individualize profits and control and thus break the collective power of these craft associations.  

Today, and toward the end of the guild era in Christian Europe, it was believed that guilds  hampered free trade and hindered technological innovation, technology transfer and business development by involving themselves in simple territorial struggles against each other and against free practitioners of their arts. It should be no surprise that one of the most vociferous critics of the guild system was Adam Smith, the father of  laissez-faire free market Capitalism, his criticism was that guilds had a tendency to stabilize prices and wages and that guilds could more easily compete with smaller enterprises due to their ability to pay large tributes to the powers that be (the kings). Another critic of the guild system was Karl Marx, the father of modern Communism. Marx' criticism of the guild system was that in their quest to standardize products and practices the guilds created a supposedly rigid gradation of social rank where master crafters were painted as oppressing their apprentices. 

However, the guilds of Europe were admittedly known for providing comfortable and humane working conditions for their workers and operating as extended families with social and economic safety nets. There final products were also admitted to be top notch, high grade and high quality and dependable, none denied the superior caliber of Guild world and their social cohesion was so pronounced, their intimate brotherhood so obvious, that they were often accused of being something close to secret society or cartel. Indeed, many youth was work very hard to get an apprenticeship in one of the Guilds as this would provide them with comfortable working conditions, stable wages, social respectability and a sense of communal stability.  So what happened after the kings and the capitalists and the communists destroyed the guilds for their power to steer politics and interfere with the industrialists and dampen the ardor of the revolutionaries?  

The Capitalists Destroy The Guilds 

After the decline of the guilds, which was facilitated with patents provided by the monarchs, we saw the rise of the "Industrial Revolution", which was the degradation of human labor, social and physical product and the environment.  All one need do is read the hundreds and thousands of novels and poems which despair the horrors the industrial revolution brought to society to get a glimpse of what the plan of the monarchs and capitalists brought to civilization.  With lightning speed the populations was driven out of the rural areas since there were no longer any stable employment or social network there, and they began crowding in dirty cities, made filthy by the poorly designed factories of the capitalists.  Everything the capitalists created, their means of production and their work environments, these were all designed with immediate short term profits in mind.  

While the Guilds provided clean and relaxing working environments, the industrialists created factory systems designed to produce at the the expense of human safety, human life and human decency.  Hundreds and thousands of women and children, forced into industrial slavery, were maimed or lost their lives or became sick from constant exposure to deadly chemicals or extremes of heat and cold. While the guilds offered stable wages and stable prices, the masses of Europe became subject to the harsh whip of capitalism and were paid the bare minimum that the average desperate person would tolerate.  With nowhere to go, to other means of employment, the hoards of Europe populated the unsanitary hovels which sprung up around the shotty and polluting factories which produced substandard and even toxic products, and they did this for starvation wages and with full knowledge that everyday they were entering conditions which could easily take their life.  Yes these were the conditions and the culture which the capitalists brought to Europe.

Capitalism Leads To Communism 

It was out of this human and environmental holocaust, the destruction of craft pride with the proliferation of cheap and chintzy wears as goods, and the total loss of all community and sense of security, it was out of these that the spirit of Communism rose.  All of Europe hated the industrial revolution and the miseries it had brought, they all wanted some escape, and Karl Marx channeled this misery and desire into a false hope. Through Marx' pen and the revolutionaries who followed him, the Communists and their derivatives promised to remove the oppressive capitalist class who enslaved the masses and then hand over the means of production to the workers.  This was to be facilitated by state programs to discourage the accumulation of private property and means of production, as well as a central bank to ensure that no private financial ventures could be undertaken without strict control from the socialist state apparatus.  Government bureaucracies would ensure that there was no private exploitation and that people would be given public housing so as to avoid private rent gouging. However there of course was no consideration of protecting citizens from state and bureaucratic exploitation and abuse, there would be no mechanism to counterbalance the communist bureaucracy, its central banks and its stranglehold over the means of production, their maintenance of the ugly factories build by the capitalists before the revolution. 

Now before we get to the obvious, the Communism would lead to state capitalism and tyranny, and this is backed up by history, we must also analyze one of the fatal flaws of Communism and the source of its inability to produce.  Karl Marx replaced theological hope in salvation with a material hope, namely dialect materialism, the supposedly scientific prophecy that history inevitably leads to communism, that communism was the natural outcome of human endeavor, and that industrial capitalism was the last stage prior to the arrival of the worker's utopia, the worker state.  However communism only sought to capture the means of production, which it associates with capitalism, but it could not think to capture the essence of production.  

Capitalism, with its mass production of expedient goods, assembled in factories built in short sight, this could only have arisen after the superior products and means of production had been established by the guilds.  The guild system was build upon apprenticeship, meaning that they invested in their workers these would need to be highly trained and educated in order to produce the superior products for which the guilds were so famous. The famed material and non-material outputs could not be assembled in freezing cold or burning hot and dangerous factory conditions but could only be brought forth from clean and healthy working environments where employees could take their time to work in comfort.  The capitalists could not compete with this and so they worked with the rulers to destroy the guild system through avarice, providing treasonous guild masters with patents for the products being produced, the production of which had once been community property.  The capitalists turned educated and industrious guild workers into barely conscious slaves less knowledgeable or competent teachers of craft. 

This is what the Communists inherited, not the essence of production but the hollowed out means of production, the Communists did not inherit the knowledge or will to produce, they inherited nothing but miserable slaves who in a pathetic attempt to escape the horror of their existence had headed the call of the materialistic prophet Karl Marx.  Any knowledge of production, the essence or production, was hoarded by the Capitalists themselves and even this was a faded and worn copy of its former glory.  With the ousting of the capitalists, the Communists found themselves with even less of this essence than their Capitalists predecessors and thus the inability for economic success in Communist and Socialist countries of the past and today.  The Communists don't understand that Capitalism has put of a veil between them and history, it has hidden the essence of production from them.  All the communists can offer is a false promise to improve the conditions of the common worker, by having then revolt and hand over the Capitalist hell hole to a central communist bureaucracy and central bank. 

Blended Systems & Fascism Rise At Same Time

Wish To Imitate The Guild System But Can't

By the early 20th century, economists and governments has realized that neither pure capitalism nor pure communism were working.  Pure capitalism led to exploitation, inferior products, a lowered quality of uneducated and desperate population and obviously the constant threat of revolution.  The Communists promised the wretched masses an improvement in their conditions, but once they had them in their clutches they would exploit them just the same and use them as military fodder as they expanded to devour other nations which still had some remnant of the productive essence.  Thus to remedy both of these calamities the West, American in particular, created blended economic systems, whereby the creation of corporations facilitated but at the same time heavily regulated by state bureaucracies.  Today in America, corporations are forced to give their employees many rights and safety conditions, but in order to keep this in place there needs to be intense government pressure and thus high levels of taxes and thousands of regulatory agencies.  

Still, these modern corporations are only focused on the short term profits of individuals and do not foster any true community among their employees, thus rather than take the time to properly and intensively educate their employees themselves, they farm this out mostly to the state which is inherently antagonistic against them, thus corporations employ citizens educated in socialist leaning schools. The divisive nature of this blended economy spans into all sectors of society and creates an air of tension and disharmony.  Everyone in America is keenly aware than they need corporations in order to employ the masses and maintain the economy, however they are also keenly aware that these corporation would not only enslave them if they could but are eager to abandon the educated population for less educated and more exploitable worker slaves overseas.  Thus the education and system and the government facilitate the rise of unions to force the corporations to provide descent working conditions and at the same time prevent corporations from disposing of the educated population in favor of more easier to manage labor, they also oversee the production of good to insure they are not dangerous or environmentally poisonous.  However, after decades of socialism and communism in other countries, as well as extensive experience with trade unions themselves, the American people are also keenly aware these these Left leaning unions behave like mini Communist states themselves, forcibly extracting union dues from workers, many of whom are forced to join unions, and these are mismanaged by bosses and an entire system which is not designed to produce anything itself but to regulate and maintain the production and behavior of others. 

Blended Systems Lead To Fascism 

In America today we can detect a culture of "necessary evil", everyone seems to believe that there is no united system which would afford relative prosperity and comfort to the majority, everyone seems to think that the only way this can be accomplished is by pitting the two parasites of Capitalism and Communism against one another.  However this eventually leads to a social and political culture of constant conflict where eventually the nations is so divided that it can no longer produce nor provide social working conditions as the blended economic system is designed to fight with itself using factions to accomplish this.  Eventually constant conflict leads to resentment and sabotage and demonization from both sides, nothing can done politically or economically as all are obsessed with controlling the other, and this sets the stage for fascism. 

Fascism and its Nazi derivative do not have defined economic programs, but they inherently arise from the stagnation created by blended economies.  Adolph Hitler and the Nazi party did not put forth a very well crafted economic policy but simply engaged in the Fascist principle of Dirigisme, which is nothing more than an authoritarian and directive role of the government in the economy.  Fascists will use capitalism and trade unions and any other facet of the blended economy in ways that they see fit at the time, they do this to simply get the system running efficiently again.  As strong man like Hitler comes in and negates the warring factions or empowers them depending on whatever the strongman or woman sees is necessary in the moment.  These fascist leaders are often capable of recovering the economy under logical directives and this is why they are temporarily welcome. But once the economy is stabilized the people who once loved the saving leader no longer need him or her and begin clambering again for a system which will allow them to operate without the overbearing personality of a single despot.  Thus Adolph Hitler and every other Fascist dictator who has no true economic ideology, eventually finds him or herself at war with the very people who were worshiping them just yesterday, the system is running and no one wants the dictator and he or she is usually eventually murdered or destroyed through treason. Then the economy falls back into the blended version it was before until the whole process is repeated. 

Modern Revival Of The Hindu Guild System

Now we have gone through the exhausting journey of the rise and fall of the economic systems of our opponents and it is time for us to offer up our own economic solution, which has been encapsulated in our Vedas and their derived literature from the dawn civilization.  Better than this, the character of the Hindu guild system feeds the exact needs and desires of the people today in regards to their want for a system that employs, educates, socializes and gives a sense of security.  Even better is the fact that Hinduism and its guild economic system are cohesive but also pliant and thus there is room for us to absorb the better ideas and practices of our opponents, we can also simply overlay ourselves over what they have already produced and slowly modify it in regards to what is possible and necessary in the moment.

So what exactly is the Hindu guild system and how can it be immediately applied today.  All across American we see movements to go back to the organic economic system of local production.  All nations of the past had different regions which produced foods and clothing and technology which were a unique expression of the areas environment and the temperament of the people. This allows for small communities to hone their skills in one a few products which they can perfect in their production and assembly, thus creating stellar quality.  Local production of unique goods and services which carry the mark of the communities essence would naturally attract other like minded people to this particular working and living community and so the system which is creating this unique product could naturally expand and with a labor pool which is intrinsically attracted to the idea of its advancement.  When people of similar temperament and ideals and aesthetic live in close proximity in order to produce a unique product or service for profit which is related to their interests, this naturally leads to a latent education system between the members which combines some underlying and honed philosophy or science in combination practical and technical skills necessary for the craft of personal and economic interest.  These communities will tend to be more stable and less transient, thus members create natural social and marital bonds which lead more than likely ensures that there community operation will be humanistic and provide some sense of natural security for their employees who are also the friends and family. 

Prior to the rise of the Industrial revolution, the Capitalism destroyed the Guilds be demonizing them as being monopolistic and being antagonistic to innovation.  Yet, today's corporations have become inherently monopolistic as they must have the power to thwart the socialistic side of the blended economy in which they operate, but instead of focusing on a few select products, mega corporations have grown up which attempt to control the production and services associated with large numbers of products, even to the point that the industries simultaneously monopolized have almost nothing to do with one another. These mega corporations must run at breakneck speed to keep their profit margins up while at the same time complying with and dodging regulations, and so they have no time or desire to care for the well being of their expendable and anonymous employees.  Rather they focus all of their time on not only monopolizing more products and services, but also influencing the government in their favor and thus the rise of the military-industrial complex.

The capitalists have created dozens of technologies and services, but due to their need to stay afloat, they have reduced their need for employees through automatization and digitalization to the point that there are less and less people employed well enough to even buy their products.  There is no end to refinement and advancement of products, however there can be an end to the need for the production of these when the vast majority of the population have become too poor to even purchase them because there is less and less need to employment in production in the first place.  The capitalists can also design their production in such a way that education is not necessary by creating many smaller and lower paying jobs which require employees to engage in only a few repetitive tasks.  In America, even public education has become an industry and an expense and a source of debt slavery, while at the same time universities and and industry work together to force the youth to get a college degree to be employed, and when college becomes a requirement that value of a college education is devalued. And so what the capitalists tried to blame on the guilds, namely monopoly, they themselves have achieved but only they have also turned the population into slaves whose minds and bodies become more and more meaningless no matter how many degrees the acquire. 

Yet here there is some light for the Hindu guild system, as we have many different technological products such as phones and cars and computers which can be produced, and if there were stable employment and wages for the majority of citizens then these could continue being produced as there would be enough people with the money to buy them.  The younger generation is keenly aware of the fact that their work environment has been atomized and they are unable to grow the full extent of theri skills, particularly in the tech industries.  If the arrival of smaller guild communities which focused on one or two products should be facilitated then the work environment would could become less microscopic for the younger generation and allow them to develop their skill and elevate the general caliber of the civilization.  It would also behoove these technology guild communities to annex colleges and trade schools to their facilities so that they could educated their employees enough to compete with guilds producing similar products. If the millions of necessary goods and services which are now in existence but which are quickly becoming unaffordable to the populace could be distributed among smaller guild companies and communities, then this could be used to facilitate the rise of more local cultures which could use these to sustain themselves while simultaneously creating a unique micro-culture which could stabilize the community and produce functional education systems and an adaptive sociality.

But now the huge question remain just how is any Hindu political and economic platform to achieve such a task?  The exact program for accomplishing this move toward a Hindu Guild system would involve Hindus first organizing themselves through their already existing economic prowess into guild communities which would then compete with the existing culture on an economic, social and educational scale.  We must first put this into practice ourselves and then convince others of the merit of our system by our dominance.  What we need to do is revive Guilds for ourselves and design them in such a way that others want to get involved and we slowly absorb the disaffected populations around us.  As for the idea of finally implementing this on a larger scale, if there were to be the rise of a Hindu political party which had the power to change the economic apparatus of the nation, then there would need to be deep consideration for the systems that are already in place.  We should not be revolutionaries by evolutionaries, slowly moving the system in our direction while allowing time to stop and analyze our progress and test our theories in reality and take the social and political temperature.  The precise details for such a move are reserved for another post, however here at least I hope many can see at least on the theoretical level that the Hindu guild system has a good chance of competing the systems of the day by addressing the emotional and economic needs of today.  But our immediate focus should be reviving the guild system among ourselves, thus liberating ourselves from the slavery of the modern system and also naturally gaining economic and social prowess to further this agenda and our Hindu religion in general.  Only after this can we begin to think about creating a political party which could attempt to incentivise the ideas presented above on a mass scale.