ORGANIZATION AND CREATIVITY - MERE ADMINISTRATION AND MERE THEOLOGY

This essay uses personal experience at the University of Sussex and as Principal of Ruskin College since 1989, to argue that Creativity in a ssociational form has been systematically marginalised as 'Mere Admini stration' or even as Theology'. New forms and relations of production (of ideas and culture as much as of material goods) depend upon organi sational innovation. Max Weber's work, together with some of the best 1 9th and 20th century Social History (particularly of voluntary organ isations) in Britain, together with the author's own experience all po int to the importance of what Marx called 'Centres of Organisation for the working class' which can do what 'the medieval municipalities and communes did for the middle class'.