Here we establish the basic orientation of foprop to regime change and a practice of dual power, while also underlining pluriversal intentions across the spectrum of activist commitments in the mutual sector: 'seven Rs'.
We adopt a view that to be an 'activist' frame, the patterns of the foprop pattern language need each to hold at its core some altered relations of production: else, change is just churn - 'Meet the new boss, same as the old boss'. This makes foprop a practice of dual power.
The central purpose of foprop as a pattern language is to highlight altered relations of production in the practice of making a living economy. In this section we look at altered relations of production in the cultural landscape, in terms of tools for conviviality.
Altered relations of production - The rationale of foprop
In this wiki we develop the perspective of making a living economy through activity in the commons, as a practice of dual power. The powers are **dual** because the practice embodies radically altered relations of production in economic, cultural and aesthetic landscapes.
At the same time we acknowledge that activist commitments in the mutual sector do in fact span a whole spectrum of intentions and motivations - a pluriversal reality of practices, formations and activist lives. This will inescapabably continue to be the case. We seek to recognise this pluriversal scope through a family of 'Seven Rs': activist commitments that just happen to be represented here by a term commencing with the letter 'R': - Rescue from clear and present danger - Resistance in the face of deathly forces - Reporting and recording news from elsewhere - Re-making of everyday life and work: real economy, festival and celebration, kindness - Reparation for harm, reconciliation of parties - Regenerative activism, staying 'alive', the suchness of things: the moment - Regime change, revolution, a historically differing mode of production
In this wiki we engage with the means of visioning and enacting pluriversal relations in making a living economy. A framing of 'seven Rs' of activist commitment underpins a commitment to design justice in the cultivation of infrastructure and tools.