Domesticated economy and capitalisms

As radicals, our relationship with the ‘domesticated’ means of everyday subsistence and wellbeing tends to be addressed in terms of phases of capitalism.

Successive ‘long waves’ within capitalism (manufacture, machinofacture, Fordism, post-Fordism, etc (techno-economic paradigms, Perez 2018) are actually, historically, rather short, spanning only the historical dominance of industrial capital. > Perez 2018, *Second machine age or fifth technological revolution* pdf

Colonisation and ‘plantation capitalism’ runs further back, and alongside agricultural capitalism in the West, and early-modern European mercantilism. The political weight that attaches to *Plantationocene* does need to be fully recognised and mobilised, but surely this isn’t old enough to warrant an *ocene* suffix.

Colonialism-capitalism will do, as a means of tagging the historical challenge in making a Living economy of domesticated means, and establishing a comprehensive ecology of trans-modern domestic commons.

> Be aware, builders at work. More to be developed here xxx On: Humanly-cultivated and -fashioned constellations of means of subsistence and wellbeing: housing and land for housing, regional food, personal care of dependents, medical care, transport, energy, etc.