MEXICO CITY (AP) — The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families.
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.
Sir, we're on a leftist website, no one refers to organized crime as organized crime on the terms of the German State.
Funny how liberal and reactionary words are fine, when you didn't yet critically analyzed them. There is enough by hard written on (organized) crime, there are material analysis possible, there is enough from published from Mexican groups to use alternative framing.
Cartels are neither bad for being criminal, nor for being organized, nor for being organized crime, they are bad for the hurt of individuals, bad for the reactionary violence and anti emancipatory allowances they keep up etc. but nothing of it is cause of them being organized crime, except in the sense that capitalist enterprise that uses (alternative) state violence to control nodes of production, the sphere of circulation and so on and so on.
Marx did show how organized violence and organized crimes (in relation to the laws of the predecessors) is what constituted a good part of the primitive accumulation, of colonialism and also on the advanced capitalist mode as found in the 'most developed' nations of Europe (not in a positive sense of progress, but an Marxist one in relation to industrialised capitalist production).
It's well known that the German State can suck my whole ass. Stop saying fucking mexican cartels are demonized victims, ffs.
There is no difference between any kind of criminals actually, everyone is just labeled by the state.
There are criminals by the state and criminals against the people
ok lol so what was the point of replying to someone talking about criminals against the people by pointing out that sometimes the state also labels people criminals?
Crimes against "the" people aren't the same as crimes against people. Crimes against individuals are only crimes against the people insomatch as they are counter revolutionary.
There is a type of liberalism that is adherence to legalism.