Robin Murray was a radical economist, social venturer and humane, inquiring, attentive listener who died in 2017. A group began meeting in 2018 to celebrate and develop his work, under the rubric Making the civil economy.

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Links to Robin’s work are here.

 

The group's agenda includes the nature of ‘an economy’, the business of making one, and the historical, liberatory, evolutionary process of re-making economies - FoPs and RoPs, both, inseparably. This part of FoP RoP contains work related to those agendas, under these headings:

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• Four grand sectors and their weaving together in a ‘new’ economy.

• Education? Innovation? Formacion! The production of organic intellectuals!

• State as labour process, as production.

 

The following are placeholders:

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• Valuing and feeling - Solidarity economy. Emotional traffic, emotional economy and the hands-on making of a new society.

• Waves of technology, waves of class - The Fordisms  - Crisis, resolution, class struggle, motors of history.

• The moral economy of the crowd. How might it be trusted? How may it be developed? Where does it live? In what way is this part of an activist’s work?

• Three socialisms - statist, collectivist, associationist. The day of associationists is yet to come?

• Inventing life and work in a pluriverse  - Organising in a movement of movements.

• Beyond fragments - Plurality, sectarianism and ‘the Lower Left’ in post-post-Fordism