Organisations in which Karl Polanyi has participated
Hungary
Hungarian Freemasonry (Galilei Circle, Szabadgodondolat, National Civic-Radical Party) [1911-1918]
Government of Béla Kun [1919]
Familial and personal social network
Vienna
Austrian Freemasonry – the Great Orient of Austria
- Freemasons/Federalists network: Jászi, Seton-Watson, Masaryk and Beneš [1919-19??]
Workers Educational Association
Bécsi Magyar Újság [1921-1923]
Private Seminar [1924-?]
Der Österreichische Volkswirt [1924-1934]
Miscellaneous
England [1934-1941 ; 1944-1946]
D. Mitrinović and A.R. Orage’s “Open conspiracy” nebula of movements: New Britain [1934] and The Eleventh Hour [1935]
Christian Left [1934-1940; 1943-1946]
Hungarian Council / The New Democratic Hungary Movement
United States of America [1941-1943; 1947-1964]
The Institute of International Education [1935-1936]
Bennington College [1941-1943]
Columbia University [1947-1953]
Funds (Carnegie, Ford, Rockefeller, Rothschild)
International
Nebula of Christian ‘modernist’ groups
| Initials | Name | Type | Era | Years | Notable members |
| CL | Christian Left | John Macmurray | |||
| IFOR | International Fellowship of Reconciliation | Europe? | Donald Grant | ||
| ICF | Industrial Christian Fellowship | ||||
| Moot | Informal group of thinkers | England | 1930s | Philip Mairet1 Karl Mannheim; Michael Polanyi; | |
| SCM | Student Christian Movement | John Macmurray? | |||
| WSCF | World Student Christian Federation | ||||
| YMCA | Young Men’s Christian Association |
Miscellaneous
Pilgrims Society