U.S. Comrades: Thoughts on FRSO?
I've been trying to find an organization to get involved in but a lot of the bigger Leftist orgs in America have some kind of controversy related to them and that's a bit off-putting.
Freedom Road Socialist Organization is the only one I've heard of that doesn't appear to have any stains on it and that's piqued my interest. Does anyone have any experience with them? Are they a good org?
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No worries! I know you didn't mean anything negative. To my knowledge, over here, many people generally agree with Red Clarion's analysis, and see it as a worthwhile org to read. I agree that it wasn't the main point of discourse, and I could be wrong, but I do believe RC's response has had some influence on how people see FRSO's take on settler-colonialism, hence my desire to put both out in the open.
Personally, I see RC as about 70% right. Sometimes they are overly critical, sometimes they are a bit disconnected, but they do tend to at least highlight genuine problems. I agree that FRSO's take on settler-colonialism is pretty poor, I understand where it comes from but it oversimplifies the class struggle and as a consequence does more harm than good by minimizing the real and continuous impact of settler-colonialism in the US.
Thanks for your input!
To my knowledge, over here, many people generally agree with Red Clarion's analysis, and see it as a worthwhile org to read.
Yeah this is why I make it a point to comment about how they are run by an abusive, wealthy Twitter power user who started a cult around himself in the guise of a party and then rage quit after the women and particularly trans women complained about him being a misogynist too many times. Red clarion is his attempt at starting a new cult around himself
This I did not know. Is there somewhere I can read more about this?
Not really, the only writing about that is by him and the clique he split with doing a lot of PR control in anticipation of a write up from the party that was announced and never materialized. He wrote dozens of pages blaming everyone else for how things went and erasing the fact that the party's structure and constitution were designed almost unilaterally by him, with a small amount of input from the other CC members who were all his friends and D&D party members for the game he DMs which is how the whole thing was started, by and for role players who spend more time in a fantasy world than they do organizing in the real world. For all of them, this party was the only organizing they had ever done and decided to start with "let's make an underground vanguard party that will manufacture a revolution," because they were so full of themselves that they thought they could be the peak of political consciousness without even a few days of attempting to organize with people on the ground. This arrogance is the dominant flavor of their newest project where they are cold emailing every small ML group they can find to coerce them into joining their "national labor federation" which is just a new micro party cult built around someone who lives on twitter. It's a great grift because these young organizers are too inexperienced to know they are being preyed on, it's a pyramid scheme for communists.
Edit: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoUKAJhaUAIDusX.jpg?name=orig
This is the announcement of the party ending and a document being written which was never released
Gotcha, I'll keep that in mind, thanks.
