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   Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 10:18:33 JST Abolisyonista

   While alternative institutions are great and all, a really big weakness in dual power strategy and prefiguration is the peripherality/centrality problem, something I'm actively theorizing on. Namely, guerrillas in boondocks and dual power in cities, leftist organizations, etc. all exist as peripheral projects while the centrality of society is taken by state, capital, patriarchy, etc.

   The transition between a condition of peripherality to centrality is, I think, the core of the revolutionary project. The solution by which can only be solved by means of insurrection and communization. By whom? The party of anarchy. The party of anarchy unites all peripheralities in the seizure and overthrow of the centrality.

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     無 Mu (mu@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 12:50:00 JST 無 Mu

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     Scott Crow likes dual power, and I think, "Can't we avoid that term and still have the abandoned school building?" I'm not a fan of the word, power, but there is "power with", which sits a bit nicer with me.

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     Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 12:53:39 JST Abolisyonista

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     @mu Yes, one reply to my critique of dual power is that "power" can mean a multiplicity of meanings. Instead of a dual power situation between two state powers (in the classic Russian revolution example), perhaps a dual power situation with a state power-over and a dual power-with. It's a powerful reply to be sure, one I consider for future work.