Authored by: HPWombat on Saturday, December 27 2008 @ 02:20 PM CST

Shell story is a narrative. How is it not a narrative? When has everything been destroyed to make the assumption that a shell is necessary?

What about the solidarity in Poland? Why provide this as an example? You assume I (and others) are versed enough on Poland to understand how its example should mean something. A link to an article explaining how these counter institutions operated against state communism and operate today would help.

From my understanding, the solidarity movement had the blessing of the pope and was tied to concepts of liberal democracy, despite being an industrial union. Ultimately, from what I'm reading, I simply see them pressuring the government to hold elections.

What about "workers' initiative"? They haven't done much beyond leftist unionism and they are anarcho-syndicalist. How are these 'counter institutions" countering anything other than a government in capitalism? The government is just a management body that has proven to be flexible to expanded ideas on more democratic republics, regional/national/ethnic autonomy, grassroots directly democratic assemblies and so on. All of this is done within capitalism and class society and has mainly functioned as a method to recompose class divisions with a renewed legitimacy.

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