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"Dual power was a relation of force inscribed in the structure of a conjuncture of crisis. It was a moment of intensification of a structural contradiction, configured and expressed in a singular and unrepeatable way.

"Dual power was less a finished concept than a genial intuition still marked by productive ambiguities. Reconstructing and actualizing such a perspective today requires to understand the precise sense in which Lenin’s notion of dual power outlines the notion of a ‘power of a completely different type’.

"The Soviets both did and did not participate in the paradigm of modern sovereignty. The Russian revolutionary process was marked by the increasingly frantic attempts to recapture that fragile utopian vision and experience – before being swept away by the restoration of the naked, absolutist sovereignty of Stalin’s counter-revolution."


https://communispress.com/lenins-alternative-a-politics-of-another-type/

"Fidelity to the revolution means fidelity to the true or abiding will of the majority of the people. Over the course of 1917, such fidelity culminated in a simple and eventually decisive demand: ‘All Power to the Soviets’!

"What’s most striking about Lenin’s approach to the question of the will of the people vs. will of the party is that he doesn’t appear to treat these as alternatives at all. Since by definition the party simply is the leading edge of the proletariat, and the proletariat is the leading edge of the people, so then the will of the party must simply be the same as the will of the people.

"The presumed continuity of people, proletariat and party is clearly rooted more in an a priori deduction than in the messy business of empirical investigation. The decisive question will then be: how far might the party leadership be prepared to go, in its claim on a de-facto monopoly on ‘conscious’ understanding and action?"


https://communispress.com/lenin-and-political-will/