By Joseph Kay [Republished from Libcom]

This blog has been planned for ages, but has somewhat been superseded by the shift to ‘technocratic’ rule in Greece and Italy. Nonetheless, hopefully it’s a useful hypothesis on state legitimacy.

The theoretical case

1,800 people took part in the IBM virtual strike on Second Life I drew attention to before. Here's a report from a participant.

As a national representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Derek Blackadder has walked many picket lines.

But until last month, he'd never encountered the problem of having a fellow protester affixed to his head.

Of course, this was unlike any picket he'd joined before.

The unseemly incident occurred during a virtual strike against IBM within the online community Second Life. Mr. Blackadder, of Cobourg, Ont., was marching to show support when an IBM Italy worker materialized on top of him.

via LIBCOM

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