The Paradigm of the Parallel Society

When the activity of those who oppose the establishment becomes articulated, it will be in forms and methods that are totally unknown to members of the establishment. Once a parallel society is sufficiently established, a society is no longer under the same grave danger as when it relies solely on the structures and institutions that are appendages of the tyrannical state. In 1988, a year before communism in Eastern Europe collapsed, Ivan Eerus reflected on the growth of the parallel society. The parallel society has proven its worth, he wrote,. It is the only meaningful structure that people can create"