“Lumpenproletariat” is exactly the kind of idea an educated German theorist would come up with in the wreckage of the industrial revolution and it’s ridiculous to try to carry that notion forward to the age of cell phones and heavily armed maoist prostitutes and if anyone can’t understand that you should throw grass at them until they stop being dorks because they’re too far gone to touch it themselves.

Like ffs read even one anthro text about black market and grey market economies and stop treating The Man’s legal system like anything but a criminal organization.

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    so “The Man” is a criminal organization but criminal organizations are good, Maoist and based ???

    The Three Main Rules of Discipline And Eight Points for Attention for the Red Army
    Obey orders in all your actions.(一切行动听指挥)
    Do not steal from the workers and peasants.(不拿群众一针一线)
    Turn in everything captured.(一切缴获要归公)
    
    Speak politely.(说话和气)
    Pay fairly for what you buy.(买卖公平)
    Return everything you borrow.(借东西要还)
    Pay for anything you damage.(损坏东西要赔)
    Do not hit or swear at people.(不打人骂人)
    Do not damage crops.(不损坏庄稼)
    Do not take liberties with women.(不调戏妇女)
    Do not ill-treat captives.(不虐待俘虏)
    
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      criminal organizations like the mafia, yakuza and triad are very reactionary, the USA has always used these orgs to attack the Left. When the PRC was established, the triad were driven out and they fled to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. During Deng’s reforms, the Triad made their way back into the PRC and are thriving again.

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      Those who are “criminal” according to the bourgeois state, are completely different from those who are criminal according to the proletarian state

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        The difference is far from complete. Homelessness wouldn’t be criminal in a proletarian state, for example, but burglarizing a home or robbing someone at gunpoint still would be.