Here we assemble the narrative flow of foprop: a pattern language for activist practice in making a living economy.
Forces of production, relations of production
> The pattern repository is elsewhere: Pattern families @ foprop So is the broad rationale of foprop, and the architecture of the pattern language - the foprop weave: Making the living economy - the foprop weave
Here we just develop the narrative frame. Why narrative frame?
Here we update on the state of the narrative frame Flow news
# Narrative flow Making a living economy - Narrative frame - The rationale Beyond fragments - A fourfold dance Evolving structures of feeling Organising a real economy Making the movements capable Reach over the horizon
--- **Why 'foprop'?** It's an acronym: **forces of production, relations of production**. There's more to be said about these historical concepts. But the point of foprop, as a pattern language of activist practice, is that the relations of production are **altered**, in contention with the hegemonic, over-arching, globalising social relations of 'the economy'.
In a cultural-materialist frame, forces of production are seen as a weave of *practices* - humans articulated with, interacting with, alternating with, mobilising, being enabled by materials, physical objects, machinery, documents.
In *Danger and opportunity* Robin Murray explores the changing nature of ‘the real economy’ of material provisioning and uses a schema that carries far more significance, I think, than he gave to it there. The bones of how it works and how it. needs to be mobilised are as follows. It leads to considerations of dual power
Commoning moves beyond the state and market, and beyond the consumerist-individualist household.
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