Sounds pretty based to me.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
At least my understanding is they just attacked as a way to maintain their control over “their territory”.
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.
So? Nothing of that was of interest for the German state, which uses national and international laws aimed at organized crime against the gross I mentioned (often supported, or motivated to do it by the US and alike).
This is my point. Just like ‘criminal’ to us are the people with capital, not the thief who steals bread or the union who is involved in direct action. So is organized crime not just of our definition.
