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Here are my notes about "Shut up about 'dual power', tool" from ziq.
Dual power comes from Vladmir Lenin which describes two powers (the Soviets and the existing gov) in order to compete and for the Soviets to gain control.
It seems some people are associating this with anarchy lately. Without knowing they're parroting an authoritarian Lenin ideology.
Anarchists aren't a political party, they have nothing to do with dual power.
Anarchy is about resisting, negating, and action. It's not about a lpan to join the ranks of the power-elite, gain democratic control, or anything like that.
The introduction of dual power to anarchy comes from Yates McKee who wrote:
(Dual power) means forging alliances and supporting demands on existing institutions — elected officials, public agencies, universities, workplaces, banks, corporations, museums — while at the same time developing self-organized counter-institutions.
While some anarchists took this new definition, Marxist-Leninists are still using the original one. Which means dual power is not anarchy in any shape or form, and is not even saying the same as the original definition.
Anarchy is not democratic government, not socialist government, not progressive government, not counter-government, not the people's government, not decentralized government, not libertarian government, not minimized goverment, not green government, not cybernated government, not blockchain government and not dual government.
We don't politely ask the corporations to stop polluting. We don't ask the banks to stop printing and distributing the currency that upholds the class system. We don't plead with our bosses to stop exploiting our labor. We don't petition politicians to stop serving their corporate benefactors. We don't ask coal to stop staining our fingers. We don't ask sandflies to stop biting our necks.
You will not reform authority. Authority will reform you. Into a tool of authority.