Dual power is a concept that has taken on a broad meaning in the hands of anarchists and libertarian socialists who use it to refer to the concept of gradual revolution through the creation of alternative institutions and counter institutions in place of and in opposition to state and corporate power.
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“Thee for my recitative,
Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day
declining,
Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and thy beat
convulsive,
Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)