What Is Dual Power?
Via It's Going Down
Video mini-documentary from subMedia.Tv on the anarchist concept of dual power.
Via It's Going Down
Video mini-documentary from subMedia.Tv on the anarchist concept of dual power.
From Sabot Media
June 15, 2023
You find yourself in the middle of the woods, surrounded by the hum of anarchists chatting and the enticing smell of curry and campfire. Without your headlamp, you can’t see anything except the stars through the tree tops. Your cell phone hasn’t gone off in days. You are somewhere special, and everyone here knows it. What’s happening here, what you all are co-creating, it will ripple out from here in many profound ways you have yet to fully realize. But you feel that potential in your bones. You all do.
Via It's Going Down
Jersey Anarchists Tackle Dumping Problem in So-Called South Jersey
Report on anarchist community project aimed at combating issue of dumping problem in the Pinelands of so-called New Jersey.
From Filler PGH
In the projects and alleys, we read the anarchist teachings of Brother Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and Alexander Berkman. We’re exercising dual-power – a power of our own, outside the existing political structure; a structure which all of us resent in some way, shape or form. We’re inspired by the wisdom of Sister JoNina Abron-Ervin. We’re attentive students of anarchists Anthony Rayson and the late Lucy Parsons.
Via It's Going Down
Women’s Liberation, Reproductive Care, and Dual Power
Looking at the historical experiences of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 1990s, Spencer Beswick argues that reproductive rights were not won by electoral means and won’t be defended by them either. Originally posted to Hard Crackers.
from Hypocrite Reader By Julian Francis Park
Get (the fuck) out, slumlord, parasite, hoarded wealth, they graffitied in black or red permutations on the walls and fences of nine vacant homes in West Oakland, California, stolen land they said, held in the portfolio of Sullivan Management Company (SMC) East Bay. Later that morning of May 2, 2021, an anonymous group released a communiqué claiming the actions through Indybay, a local independent media site.
From: https://raddle.me/wiki/dualpower
Dual power was coined by Lenin to describe two powers (the Soviets and the existing government) temporarily coexisting with each other and competing for legitimacy with the ultimate goal of the Soviets expelling the other power and seizing control of the state (to install state capitalism / one party dictatorship).
Kelley and I discuss the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, and his life. We discuss how his anti-technology beliefs and extreme outlook resonate with events and radical, anti-government movements in this current day and age. And finally we explore what lessons can be learned by looking at this case in hindsight.
See the full video and transcript below. I edited the text slightly for clarity’s sake, just to remove filler words and put anything I forgot to say in.
from Roar Magazine
by Richard Gilman-Opalsky
It is time for those who aspire to love — which is to say everyone everywhere — to finally see the communism of their aspiration.
A Simple Explanation
Dual power can be explained as the building of a transitional program for political, social, and economic transformation. Itcreates survival programs to oppose state power and creates a new type of autonomous public sector when the state fails the people.