26/11/2024
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REVOLUTION IN POWERPOINTS SERIES PART 1 (Anarcho-Panthers):
Anarcho-Pantherism, also described as: Intercommunal Anarcho-Mutualism and Intercommunal Mutualist Anarchism:
A Synthesis of Decentralized Cooperation and Anarchist Principles
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Intercommunal mutualist anarchism is a theoretical framework that combines the principles of mutualism, anarchism, and intercommunalism. This approach emphasizes decentralized, self-managed communities that prioritize reciprocity, cooperation, and voluntary association.
To synergize the concepts from Intercommunal Mutualist Anarchism (Anarcho-Pantherism) and the Panther Dual Power Strategy, we can create a practical, real-time policy framework for building community-based, decentralized institutions that foster mutual aid, self-defense, and revolutionary potential, while engaging in a broader resistance to capitalist-imperialism. This strategy would emphasize a cooperative, intercommunal network of institutions that empower oppressed communities, laying the groundwork for dual power, and ultimately contributing to a broader insurrectionary movement.
1. Intercommunal Mutualism as a Grounding Principle
At the core of this policy framework is intercommunal mutualism, which focuses on fostering decentralized, voluntary cooperation between communities, based on shared goals of mutual aid and equal freedom. This means communities will form networks of support, exchange, and cooperation that are independent from the state or capitalist structures. Key elements of this would include:
Mutual Aid Networks: Communities organize cooperatives, food banks, healthcare clinics, and educational institutions that are managed collectively by the community members. These institutions are designed to meet the immediate needs of the people while simultaneously empowering them to take control over their own lives and spaces.
Shared Responsibilities and Rotating Tasks: Unpleasant or difficult tasks such as sanitation, security, or organizing community events can be rotated among members to prevent the burden from falling disproportionately on any one individual, and ensure the work is shared equally.
Community Ownership: The means of production within these communities (small businesses, farms, etc.) will be collectively owned and run by the people, and profits will be reinvested into the community for its collective benefit. This is an essential step in both providing for people's needs and challenging capitalist exploitation.
2. Dual Power: Building People’s Power
The Panther Dual Power Strategy advocates for building independent community-based institutions that function in opposition to state power and capitalist forces. The focus here is on creating alternative systems of governance and defense that can challenge existing power structures, and eventually serve as a base for revolution. Key strategies include:
People’s Defense and Self-Organized Security: Recognizing the need to defend against state violence (police, repression, surveillance), community defense groups should be organized. These groups can be tasked with protecting the community, safeguarding social services, and providing mutual support in cases of state aggression. Training for self-defense and community preparedness will be emphasized.
Revolutionary Institutions: Communities will build Schools of Liberation—places of education and ideological development where people learn not just basic skills but also revolutionary consciousness. These schools can also include cultural workshops, organizing centers, and places to challenge the dominant narratives of state and capitalist society.
Social Welfare Alternatives: Since state welfare is often inadequate or actively harmful, communities will set up their own systems of healthcare, education, housing, and childcare. These systems will not be market-driven but will operate on the principles of need and reciprocity.
Coalitions Across Communities: To build a unified mass movement, communities must work together across geographic and social divides. The emphasis will be on intercommunal cooperation, with networks linking urban, rural, and marginalized communities. This collaboration will help build a broad base for resistance and collective action. Through mutual support, communities can strengthen their collective power and challenge the authority of the state.
3. From Dual Power to Insurrection: Transforming Spaces of Oppression
The ultimate goal of combining mutualist anarchism and Panther strategy is to transform oppressive spaces into spaces of revolutionary potential. In this context, dual power becomes a stepping stone, not an end goal. The aim is to create a society where the state is undermined by people's power and ultimately overthrown through collective, organized insurrection. Key components of this phase include:
Squatter Movements and Urban Liberation: Utilizing abandoned buildings, public spaces, and unoccupied lands, people will create liberated zones or revolutionary base areas where the oppressed can organize without interference from the state. These spaces can house people’s clinics, workshops, cultural centers, and more.
Solidarity with the Lumpen: The lumpenproletariat (often marginalized street-based communities) will be engaged in the struggle. This demographic, often ignored by traditional labor movements, has been central to movements like the Panthers. A special focus will be on promoting unity and solidarity between these groups, building alliances to challenge police repression, and educating them in revolutionary politics.
Cooperative Economy and Resistance to Capitalist Exploitation: A key aspect of this policy is building cooperative businesses and people’s economic structures that are independent of capitalist interests. These businesses can serve as an economic lifeline while also challenging the power of multinational corporations and exploitative practices. Small business owners, shopkeepers, and workers will be engaged in forming unions and cooperatives.
4. Legal Defense and Media Strategy
While engaging in direct confrontation with the state, a crucial component of the strategy is to utilize the legal system to defend the movement and expose the state’s role as an instrument of capitalist imperialism:
Legal Defense Programs: Building a robust legal defense network that can support those arrested or targeted by state repression, ensuring that any unlawful acts by the state are challenged.
Public Opinion and Propaganda: Just as the Panthers used media to expose the violence and hypocrisy of the state, today’s movement must also utilize independent media channels to tell the story of oppressed communities. This can involve grassroots journalism, social media campaigns, and collaborating with existing alternative media outlets.
5. International Solidarity and Red Fist Alliance
The struggle against capitalist imperialism is international. The creation of intercommunal and international solidarity networks is necessary for success:
Solidarity Movements: The communities involved in this dual power struggle should create alliances with like-minded movements across the globe, whether they are fighting imperialism, fascism, or capitalist exploitation. The Red Fist Alliance concept would unite revolutionaries across borders, connecting struggles locally and globally.
Prison Organizing: Prisons can be sites of revolutionary transformation. Building alliances with incarcerated comrades, organizing for their rights, and turning prisons into Schools of Liberation is a vital aspect of both local and international struggle.
Conclusion: Building a Revolutionary Future
This framework for Intercommunal Mutualist Anarchism combined with the Panther Dual Power Strategy proposes a vision where oppressed communities challenge the state, build cooperative alternatives, and prepare for eventual insurrection. It focuses on grassroots organizing, self-defense, mutual aid, and cultural transformation to lay the foundation for a truly liberated and just society. Through intercommunalism, dual power, and revolutionary consciousness, oppressed people can create the basis for a revolutionary transformation of society.
For more on the Panther Dual Power Strategy:
https://www.facebook.com/UnitedPantherParty/posts/817847747039070
