Lenin's Dual Power

Algerian protesters burned police stations, government offices and courts until the government agreed to give ethic minority groups, language and cultural rights. So few regular police stations survived the uprising that the regular police likewise ceased to function across broadsuas or cabilia. They were replaced by self organized security committees which would assemble on the rare occasion trouble emerged. This was dual power in its original sense, a council of the people facing off against an increasingly illegitimate parliamentary representative. Just as russia was haunted by the memory of the french communes, so is America to day haunted by a memory of dual power that, against all laws, refuses to die.