The origins of the Mafia have been resistant groups against abusive lords. Today pretty much every family based organised crime group is called the Mafia. The first gangs in the U.S. were neighbourhood cliques that turned defensible financing their activities by homegrown against corrupt cops and hard drug sellers, today these crack and cocaine junkies define gangs. The first Rockers were armed Hippies like in the Born to be Wild movie, today they are street gangs on bikes.
They all have a fashist and dysantrop attitude in common. They are as dark future as it gets today. They need Cyberpunk culture to take ‘em on and down.
Organized crime is functioning today in two ways: By vertical and horizontal integration.
Vertical integration means that they all have an Alpha, a head like a local Rocker group has a President, a gang an OG and a Mafia a Don like figure.
Horizontal means that they trade between each other. The Mexican Kartells sell to the Italian N’drangehta who sell to Rockers who use Gangs for the end customer business.
They are in constant conflict.
Group dynamic theory teaches (1)(2) that all groups are in a constant dynamic cycle. Beside these stages there is also a hierarchy of Alpha, Beta, Delta and Omega in especially dysantrop systems.
Alpha is the leader that is supported by Beta and under constant challenge of his position by Omega while Delta is basically the work donkey of the group.
If one cannot cut down a dysantrop group by blunt force social engineering tactics will help to get there.
Dysantrop groups need an outside enemy to get into the performing stage of the group dynamics otherwise they will stuck in the forming stage due to their dysantrop social bases based on conflict and without the Delta they become ineffective. Quite often the Deltas are like the Con Slaves of the dark future utopias that are trapped in a sute squeezed between chair and desktop by a credit line to pay of a house in suburbia and two vacations a year. If the Deltas leave, the Beta Officers and Centurions are in trouble with Omegas going up against the Alpha leader possibly by support of renegade Betas and need to look for new recruit stupid prospects Deltas.
The social interactions of the TV show "Sons of Anarchy" are pretty accurate. Them being successful against a para military organisation as the IRA: Fuck you Hollywood.
Horizontal integration is the connection between different forms.
Be aware that most of the major Rocker groups are nomore than different Armies of the Rocker Nation, that the different Kartells of Mexico are no more than different Armies of the Kartell Nation and so on.
Horizontal integration is on one hand the connection between those rivalling Armies and on the other the connections between different forms of the international fashist mafia
Hells Angels are the Alphas of the Rocker Nation and therefore constantly challenged by the Omega Rocker Army within the Rocker force, because the same team building rules apply within one branch run by a President, apply to the overall Club and Rocker Army made of local branches and the overall Rocker Nation Club structure.
The other form of horizontal integration are the trade agreements between the different organizations.
The Mexican Kartells rule the Cocaine production and in the US also the international export import business, the Rockers rule the national transportation and the Gangs rule sales, while in Europe the import is run by a Mafia organization, the transport business is under Rocker control, but there are hardly any Gangs as known from the U.S.A so the end customer business is done by the Rockers or Gang like affiliates.
This is the example of Italy. The Red dots are Hells Angels Charters that are more densely placed in around north Italy in the Milano Region where also first signs of MS13 Gang activity on European soil were reported. Rome knows no own Mafia, because it is the capital and under special surveillance by the Italian and also Vatican City security forces. The southern Region of Calabria is the origin and home region of the N’drangheta responsible based on media reports for most of the European Cocaine imports.
A wide spread misconception is that the poor south is also home to the very heads of the N’drangheta. The difference to e.g. the Sicilian (3) and New York based Cosa Nostra who fought right wing judges using para military tactics in the 80ies, is that the N’drangehta is in the business for profit for Bling Bling, only. Milano is known for being the centre of Italy’s fashion industry and managed to put itself on one level with Monaco and Marbella on the Bling Bling list being the urban part while Marbella is the beach part and Monaco the dream destination of ultimate European Bling Bling.
So, guess what’s happening there...
This Empire of Organised Crime Nations is along with corrupt companies that e.g. use mercenaries to secure mining rights in Africa or Hackers to disrupt the IT infrastructure of a competitor, lawyers to stress loop holes in the law system against innovative smaller firms and public servants that put as a police man gang signs on one level with Graffiti and politicians that believe another nation is a rival instead of a partner, the most likely starting point of a down fall scenario as in my fictional dark future short stories or many others in the Dark Future Sci-Fi genre.
The biggest supporter so, is the passive individual.
A moggle is a normal citizen. The normal citizen does not even smoke pot regularly, but occasionally drinks a beer and possibly smokes cigarettes. The normal citizen is living the 9 to five, paying of a mortgage, watching telly to figure out where to put the rest of his pay check and has kids, is living the dream life a Cyberpunk is cut off from and a dysantrop criminal puts in fear.
You smoked pot or ever got piss drunk to public disorder level? You ride your bike or car sometimes faster than the speed limit? You will not back down in a pub if anyone disrespects your mate or girl despite possible injuries and a ban from the place? You figured that a runners high is better than powder? You are no moggle no more....
...and you have to make a choice.
Fashist or Punk.
Dysantrop Criminal or Stretching Cyberpunk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_building
(2)Groud dynamics theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman%27s_stages_of_group_development
(3)List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_victims_of_the_Sicilian_Mafia
