Socialist pluralism grew between 1900 and 1925 within the British labor movement, notably around Harold Laski and the guild socialists such as G.D.H. Cole. Its criticisms of state monism and organized capitalism have roots in writers as different as Proudhon, Sorel, Lord Acton, James, Spencer, Gierke and Maitland. Socialist pluralism wanted to transcend the representative system by means of functional federalism. That led it to enter the debate over the creation of self-governing economic and political institutions in the 1960s.
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