Sounds pretty based to me.
Yeah, no. Not even as a joke. The cartels are utterly vile, and have a lot of innocent blood on their hands in the name of profit. The only reason they’re hunting down police is because those particular police won’t tow their line. Otherwise, they have no problem exerting their influence on the Mexican state and its enforcers “peacefully” (as they’ve shown within the last several decades). Should we also celebrate corporate private militaries and assassins in other countries, as well?
not to mention organized crime (mafia, Russian mob, Yakuza, Triads etc…) are all anti-communist, and the state has used them as a weapon against Communist movements. Maoist China pretty much eliminated organized crime, and they all fled to Hong Kong and Macau, but since the Dengist reforms, organized crime is back and thriving in the PRC.
not to mention organized crime (mafia, Russian mob, Yakuza, Triads etc…) are all anti-communist, and the state has used them as a weapon against Communist movements.
I’m pretty sure the Mexican cartels were all assisted pretty heavily by the CIA, like Los Zetas had military training.
Triads etc…) are all anti-communist
they are now, but they weren’t during the revolution
in fact, they probably saved the revolution as according to mao it was triad leaders who sheltered him in the 20s after the communists got fucked by the kuomintang (or at least that’s the reference sakai uses in his book)
i’m just saying that because it’s not always that organized crime is anti-communist or right-wing or whatever, lumpens in general tend to be a volatile class that can go anywhere and shouldn’t be dismissed (of course, some groups i’d say are out of reach, but that should be looked at on a case by case basis)
Recently watched The Act of Killing which covered the 1965 Indonesian Massacres and should bring up that the same death squads that were used by the anti-communist military were made up of criminals, and the paramilitary organization that they collectively formed is today actively entrenched in organized crime.
The Hong Kong Triads got used against the anti-communist protesters last year. They’re just tools of the pigs, no matter who they are.
The German state sees piracy groups and our comrades who Crack games and software as organized crime groups.
The German state sees the YPG as organized crime groups.
The German state sees anti G20 protestors and anti gentrification groups as organized crime groups.
Etc etc.
Your expressed idea of organized crime is exactly why the state uses such terms, to evoke the images of child murderers on legislation and public opinion, using it for their own capitalist oppressive goals. Their organized crime isn’t or organized crime.
YPG isn’t disemboweling civilians in front of their kids and piracy groups don’t cut faces of people off while they’re alive with a boxcutter.
Neither do they profit off of anything they do.
The cartel does.
