• Dolores [love/loves]
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    2 months ago

    Also some minor note on treating clans as internal groups within the Camarilla

    the difference between system and organization is hard for organized crime media to parse. the system is organized crime--the 'masquerade' in context (but maybe that's more a characteristic of it), the organizations are the individual hierarchies of bosses and goons. but these two get twisted together all the time, people use mafia to refer to the very idea of organized crime, call groups not related to italian organized crime "x nationality Mafia". Anarchs might not be answering to Camarilla bosses, but as an organized gang in the same city & system it's easy for someone to call that system 'Camarilla'. the Anarchs are just the 'serbian mafia' in the 'mafia town'.

    the way americans talk about organized crime is like if we didn't have the word 'capitalism' and used a word like Fordism in the specific as well as abstract. remind me to look into the academic study of organized crime, i'm sure somebody has untangled it