Prefigurative Politics and Dual Power Organizations

There are right wing forms of both dual power and prefigurative politics. Dual power organizations serve multiple purposes, including as schools for democracy. When these spaces of democratic experimentation are functioning properly, their very organizational structure serves as a kind of recruitment tool. This was the original theory behind occupy wall street, that democracy and the experience of autonomy would spread rapidly among curious people. That experience, in turn, would create a new generation of people trained in democratic practices who could go forth and transform the world.