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minus-squarehallettj@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoAs someone who is not onboard with dismantling the existing political system without a better system ready to go, I think that dual power sounds like a great idea!
minus-squareDessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-24 months agoWe have the Bolsheviks to thank for it! (E: to be clear, and as will be evident by the links I shared, I am not a Leninist lol) My summation of the concept is obviously superficial, here are some good places to start getting a better idea of what it is and where we might start: https://www.weareplanc.org/modules/wtf-is-dual-power/ https://medium.com/@anarchist.environmentalist/an-anarchist-dual-power-e911edf66ad7 https://blog.pmpress.org/2019/09/02/alternative-institutions-or-dual-power/ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-editorial-collective-an-anarchist-faq-full (there isn’t a specific dual power bullet point, but it does come up, and in general this document is worth looking through)
As someone who is not onboard with dismantling the existing political system without a better system ready to go, I think that dual power sounds like a great idea!
We have the Bolsheviks to thank for it! (E: to be clear, and as will be evident by the links I shared, I am not a Leninist lol)
My summation of the concept is obviously superficial, here are some good places to start getting a better idea of what it is and where we might start:
https://www.weareplanc.org/modules/wtf-is-dual-power/
https://medium.com/@anarchist.environmentalist/an-anarchist-dual-power-e911edf66ad7
https://blog.pmpress.org/2019/09/02/alternative-institutions-or-dual-power/
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-editorial-collective-an-anarchist-faq-full (there isn’t a specific dual power bullet point, but it does come up, and in general this document is worth looking through)