organized crime will always fail when it does not understand itself to be a nascent governmental structure challenging the established one for the violence monopoly, which can lead to thinking that the two can coexist from this we see what we call successful organized crime
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Replying to @chaosprime
Organized crime is like a nomadic empire, it must cease to be one or the other
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Replying to @paul_hundred @chaosprime
I mean, that definitely *sounds* super cool, but is it actually true?
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The “nomadic” part doesn’t really mean anything, but “criminal empire” has long been used to describe some crime organizations
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I mean, okay. What's the evidence that criminal empires are incapable of lasting? I mean, regular empires don't actually last that long either.
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I don’t understand your question.
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They said that organized crime has either stop being organized or stop being crime -- which I take to mean either become disorganized regular crime or legalize itself and become a state. But that doesn't seem true? I can't think of any examples of either happening.
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are not the American mafias essentially broken and the Russian mafias a state?
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The Albanian mafias based in LA are gonna complicate your original tweet.
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ooh i’d hate for anything to get complicated 
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