Perspectives sur le double pouvoir dans la révolution au Portugal, de Nicos Poulantzas à Raquel Varela

Abstract

The aim of this article is to revisit the dynamics of dual power during the Revolution in Portugal and their pertinence for contemporary discussion. To that end the article begins by revisiting Nicos Poulantzas’s The Crisis of the Dictatorships, and the tensions running through the text, along with other interventions from that period, coming from the traditions of the Revolutionary Left. Then we move to Raquel Varela’s A People’s History of the Portuguese Revolution as an account that points to the dynamics of dual power inside the Portuguese Revolution, without falling into the shortcomings of previous approaches, before arriving at some tentative conclusions on thinking dual power from a strategic perspective.

Keywords

• Marxism
• Revolution
• Portugal
• Portuguese Revolution
• Nicos Poulantzas
• Raquel Varela