ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how collective justice, whether formal or informal, is someway penetrable by those individuals who are subject to discipline. Penetration by individual coop members may occur at either the informal or formal levels of disciplinary policy in such a way that shapes disciplinary practice differently from disciplinary policy. Undoubtedly the most significant way in which the capitalist society penetrates the collective ideal is that cooperatives have necessarily to deal with capitalist organisations whose system of working then contaminates their attempts to remain alternative and autonomous. Capitalism depends upon collective justice just as socialism depends upon hierarchical elite group decision-making. The fundamental issue, then, is not to create idealistic alternatives but to reflect upon how human experience is related to the totality of which it is a part.
