# Dual Power

Outside of the false dichotomy of reform vs revolution, there is a
strategy called "dual power".



The strategy is basically like this:


1. Just build a new system that is independent from the old system
. Don't care much about the old system. Don't waste your time on p
ower struggles and so on. Just build. Hence the term "dual power".

Ex) Twitter sucks. Then don't care much about it and just build an
d use Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey or whatever.

Note that you might have to make the new system self-propagating.
I think why bitcoin is so successful at using this strategy is bec
ause of it.


2. Make people immigrate from the old system.


3. Then eventually outnumber it. There might be some conflicts bet
ween the two systems. Thus you would need to manipulate and to att
ack the old system in this phase. If not, that's great and just wa
it some time.



One advantage of dual power is that you already have built working
solutions when the old system falls.
One reason of why a reform/revolution fails is that when reformers
/revolutionaries take the power, they don't know what things work
so they eventually end up reviving old flawed solutions that work
at least. Like Bolsheviks reviving some capitalism by NEP.

Another advantage is that you can immediately live the life you wa
nt at least partially. In contrast, all revolutionaries can do are
just demanding and going on strike lol. Well, some succeed, but th
at's basically a 100 or 0. There's no real between.