I agree, I’ve been told by socialists that Karl Marx and engles talked about how organized crime, the criminal classes, were used by the state to oppress the working population, and everything I have seen has reinforced that, not the least reading about the labor movement with organized crime being tight with the cops and Fielding strike Breakers and then of infiltrating labor.

But, I think the gangs should be unionized, it would solve a lot of problems. The cartels too but that is kind of outside of our wheelhouse in the US here.