Dual Power is a strategy within leftist theory that argues for the creation of alternative and counter-institutions (such as co-operatives, intentional communities, squats, protest camps) that exist parallel to the society you are trying to destroy.
Historical Examples of Large-Scale Dual Power
- 1910: Mexico
- 1917: Russia
- 1918: Poland
- 1918: Germany
- 1919: Italy
- 1920: Ireland
- 1921: China
- 1944: Poland
- 1945: Indonesia
- 1953: East Germany
- 1956: Hungary
- 1956: Poland
- 1962: Algeria
- 1968: Kraakers (Netherlands)
- 1969: Italy
- 1973: Argentina
- 1974: Portugal
- 1975: Spain
- 1979: Bolivia
- 1979: Iran
- 1980: Poland
- 1999: Bolivia
- 2001: Venezuela
- 2001: Argentina
- 2006: Mexico
- 2008: Greece
- 2011: Occupy (USA)
- 2011: Egypt
- 2012: Spain
- 2014: Bosnia
- 2019: Chile