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RE: Slave labor camps in the united states
I think Bookchin's Libertarian Municipality ideology stems very much from Red Bases and Dual Power while of course having heavy influences from the Anarchist tradition. Is there a need to update Dual Power? Well for the Third World (and Second World?) with their Red Bases and Protracted People's War, they got it situated alright there (Naxalite India, Maoist Filipinos, FARC Columbia and so on and so on). But for the First World (and Second World?), there's a need to commit to actual theory-crafting and find our Dual Power for our day, from either Marxist or Anarchist tradition. And yes, as we question ourselves do we ever more understand the World around us. And as we question the World around us, do we ever more understand ourselves.
Regardless, we should give Critical Support to Third World movements that do go Leftist, like the Venezuelan Government, and others. They know their situation, they can obviously do better, but we have no way to tell if there is a better path for them with how their material conditions are set up. But we shall stand with them where we agree and struggle with them where we disagree. They after all are facing the brunt-end of Imperialism, let all of us leftists overcome that principal contradiction, and then we can talk about where they should go from there.