ATS Roundtable
Gangs and the Lumpenproletarian Class Base of Anti-System Struggle

July 14, 2013

ATS senior editors Miles Joyner, Vince Rinehart, and Keith Preston discuss the political potential of organized outlaws.

Topics include:

• The misperception of gangs as a distinctively lower class social phenomenon.
• The enormous size of the gang population in the United States.
• Gangs as a form of stateless tribal networks and models of fourth generation warfare organizations.
• Past efforts at the political organization of gangs.
• The role of gangs in past rebellions such as the 1992 West Coast uprisings.
• Why the lumpenproletariat has surpassed the traditional proletariat as the basis of class struggle.
• The relationship between gangs and ethno-identitarian movements.
• Gangs as source of streetfighters during revolutionary struggle.
• The criteria needed for effective protest movements.
• How a militant minority of passionate opinion-holders can affect society way beyond their numbers.

File type: MP3
Length: 1:18:05
Bitrate: 32kb/s

Download (right click, ‘save as’)

Email Keith:
kppgarv@mindspring.com