In three taut essays, Kristian Williams examines our society’s understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticized, misunderstood, or muddled. He explores the complex intersections between “gangs” of all sorts—cops and criminals, Proud Boys and antifa, Panthers and skinheads—arguing that government and criminality are intimately related, often sharing critical features. As society becomes more polarized and the conviction that things are only going to get worse, and more violent, grows, William’s analysis is a crucial corrective to our simple, unquestioned ideas about the role violence might or should play in our social struggles.
Table of Content
Foreword by Robert Evans
One – Ganging Up for Civil War? Proud Boys vs. Antifa vs. Police
Two – The Other Side of the COIN: Counterinsurgency and Community Policing
Three – Gangs, States, and Insurgencies
About the author
Robert Evans, the author of A Brief History of Vice , has had an eclectic career as an investigative journalist reporting from war zones in Iraq, Syria, the Ukraine, and covered the 2020 uprising in Portland, Oregon. He hosts the podcasts Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here for i Heart Radio and is a writer for the humor website Cracked.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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