Editing Dual power (section)

==Modern usage by libertarian socialists==
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[[Libertarian socialists]] have more recently appropriated the term to refer to the strategy of achieving a libertarian socialist economy and polity by means of incrementally establishing and then networking institutions of direct [[participatory democracy]] to contest the existing power structures of state and capitalism, ultimately leading to a revolutionary rupture. This does not necessarily mean disengagement with existing institutions; for example, Yates McKee describes a dual-power approach as "forging alliances and supporting demands on existing institutions&nbsp;– elected officials, public agencies, universities, workplaces, banks, corporations, museums&nbsp;– while at the same time developing self-organized counter-institutions."<ref name='Yates'>{{cite web |last=McKee |first=Yates |date=30 July 2014 |title=Art After Occupy&nbsp;– Climate Justice, BDS and Beyond |url=http://www.wagingnonviolence.org/feature/art-after-occupy/ |website=Waging Nonviolence |access-date=5 January 2019}}</ref> In this context, the strategy itself is sometimes also referred to as "counterpower" to differentiate it from the term's [[Leninism|Leninist]] origins.

Strategies used by libertarian socialists to build dual power include:<ref>{{cite book|last=Federation |first=Anarchist |date=2015|title=A Short Introduction to Anarchist Communism |url=http://afed.org.uk/short-intro/ |access-date=4 December 2019}}</ref>
* [[Mutualism (economic theory)|Mutualism]] – building [[counter-economics|alternative economies]] through [[co-operatives]], [[credit unions]] and [[local purchasing]].
* [[Municipalism]] – building [[popular assemblies]] to make decisions at the community level and displace both capitalism and the modern state.
* [[Syndicalism]] – building revolutionary [[trade unions]] to confront management in the workplace and ultimately overthrow capitalism. In [[Anarcho-syndicalism|its anarchist form]], it seeks to simultaneously abolish the state.
* [[Council communism]] – building [[Workers' council|workers' councils]] as revolutionary workplace and governmental structures.
* [[Autonomist Marxism]] – building a variety of independent structures until a revolutionary overtaking of the state on the path to a [[Communist society|libertarian communist society]].