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Parallelism (Gaullican: Parallélisme) is a Councilist policy in which labor organizations and ideologically compliant elected officials are recognized as parallel, co-equal institutions with the proclaimed government of their host nations. Official governments are also treated in the same terms that they treat native labor organizations such that nations that limit or outlaw labor organizations are themselves considered hostile or pariahs in turn. Parallelism emerged from the emrgent attitude of mutual recognization enjoyed by North Euclean labor organizations which coalesced into several governments including the Kirenian primus inter pares councilist state.
History
As international relations normalized between revolutionary and liberal states in the post-war period, many leading figures, such as Aive Must, were reluctant to engage with the agents of international capital as legitimate state actors. In order to accomodate demands from the public to improve trade connections, Councilist leaders made it a priotity to establish relationships with syndicalized production sites in nearby Kantemosha. Unregulated contact with otherwise subversive and militarized elements was seen as an obvious sign of hostility nearly everywhere it was implemented and soured relations. To avoid violence, a three part meeting composed of trade union leaders, Kirenian officials, and Kantemoshan officials (later primarily as observers) was arranged to discuss issues. Following these meetings in 19xx, Kirenians began requesting labor organizers and/or the corresponding cabinet office for labor administration would be present in official visits in all other countries.
As the international councilist movement expanded, parallelism took on new forms, most notably as a way for the Kirenian government to forge protected agreements with foreign councils and parties. The arms trade was the most controvesial component of this practice affecting dozens of internationally unrecognized insurgent governments, but as tensions cooled, industrial espionage also emerged. Since the Kirenian government only tenuously recognized international or national copyright laws, they were able to quickly absorb trade secrets through their connections with workers. Kirenia was one of the earliest adopters of long-range nuclear weapons, in part because they had accesss to ballistic data from the majority of great powers also moving to develop nuclear arsenals. Extracting trade secrets ultimately caused the decline in this secret side of parallelism as it triggered a wave of labor organization crackdowns in liberal states, ultimately leading to Kirenia abandoning these methods to protect the interests of workers internationally. The political side of parallelism was reemphasized after this period, however, and continues to be a prominent component of international councilism.