Goes beyond the analysis of post-Fordist economic forms, in Robin's *Danger & opportunity* (2009), to argue that one of the four economy 'blobs' he identifies - **the mutual sector** - is far more significant than it might seem, when seen as a sphere of *cultural* as well as economic production. It produces *the labour power to remake society*. I argue there needs to be a shift *from economics to organising*.
In *Danger and Opportunity* (DaO), Robin deploys a background schema of four ‘grand sectors’ in an economy: state, market, household, grant-funded economy. This chapter unpacks that ‘blob map’ and, in particular, explores the composition of the oddly named and unfamiliar ‘grant funded economy’.
That formation clearly has something to do with **‘civil society’** and ‘global civil society’, which have become prominent as activist formations during the post-Fordist period which Robin is analysing. The chapter argues that this fourth and superficially marginal ‘economy’ needs to be addressed as a sector of *cultural* as well as economic production - where ‘culture’ is understood as a field of capacities to **know, communicate and organise**.
I'll address this as a field of *production of labour power*, which is fundamental not only to emergent forces and relations of production in **‘the Fordisms’** - especially in post-Fordist ‘knowledge based’ capitalism - but also to the production of *radical activist formations* in civil society, and thus, the production of the Living Economy.
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# See also . .
This wiki contains the text of a draft chapter for a book in honour of economist Robin Murray. The draft is 30k+ words, in five main sections with a short intro and coda. It includes thinking on the structure and principles of a 'college of conviviality' and a pattern language of activist practice.