I don’t believe gangs are viable revolutionary vehicles, but in my experience, studying them is valuable for figuring out how to have a revolution survive the state’s counterinsurgency. This applies to the lessons they can teach us both on which destructive traits to avoid, and on which positive organizational traits cadres can take example from.
Awesome read comrade! Seeing that there are at least some Marxists in the west educating themselves about asymetric warfare gives me hope. Having not found a party to get involved with myself it is especially hard for me to see or notice.