Five Steps to Revolution




Minarcho-Councilists believe that there are five main steps to achieving their goals: 


  1. Class Consciousness: Revolutionary class consciousness develops within the working class in a severe crisis of the capitalist system (with encouragement and agitation by a revolutionary organization).
  2. Organs of Revolution: The workers then establish directly democratic councils in both workplaces and communities as the basic organs of the revolution.
  3. Dismantle to the Minimal State: Using these councils, the workers then proceed to seize the means of production and dismantle the state. The revolutionary principle of the minimal state does not seek the abolition of the state but rather a great reduction in the power of the state down to the absolute minimal amount possible. Such a minimal state would ensure the protection of workers and their rights. 
  4. Worker Self-Management: Following from this, society and the economy is managed and coordinated by workers' councils, where production in all workplaces is managed by their workers via participatory decision-making.
  5. Principles of Production and Distribution: As opposed to directly controlling the factory, the council members’ task is to facilitate discussion and to carry out the decisions made by their fellow workers that elected them, as well as facilitating cooperation between workplaces, in addition to coordination between consumers/community groups and workplace committees/councils. This forms the economic foundations for the construction and organization of a society in the sense of the “association of free and equal people.” 

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