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Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Novo General Megathread for the 30th of January to 6th of February 2026
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The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a communist political party in the United States. FRSO formed in 1985 as a merger of several Maoist-oriented New Communist movement organizations.
In 1985, the Proletarian Unity League and the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters merged to create FRSO. In 1986, FRSO fused with the Organization for Revolutionary Unity. In 1988, FRSO absorbed the Amílcar Cabral-Paul Robeson Collective.
FRSO's component groups believed that ultraleftism was the US New Communist movement's main error. Merging under the FRSO banner, these groups hoped to consolidate the movement's remnants in a single organization and move beyond the sectarianism that marked the previous decades.
1999 split
In response to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, FRSO began to develop two distinct positions on socialist countries. The "Left Refoundation" group, aligned with democratic socialism, argued that these events resulted from a deep crisis of Marxism. The "Fight Back!" group, aligned with Marxism-Leninism, argued that these events resulted from revisionism rather than failures within Marxism. These divisions grew during the 1990s. In 1998, the Left Refoundation group wrote an internal document, "Theses on Left Refoundation", and requested an organization-wide discussion.
Both factions claimed the name "Freedom Road Socialist Organization". In 2006, the Left Refoundation group renamed itself to "FRSO/OSCL", combining the English and Spanish acronym. In 2019, the Left Refoundation group renamed itself to Liberation Road.
Publications
FRSO's main publication is the website and monthly paper Fight Back! News (FB!N) and its Spanish section Lucha y Resiste.
The 9th Congress of FRSO, held in spring 2022, came at a critical juncture in the development of the people’s struggle and the accelerating decline of monopoly capitalism in the U.S. As the call to the congress states, in the recent period “we have seen a level of struggle that is unprecedented since the 1960s. The great rebellion following the murder of George Floyd, which was both broad and militant, signals the shape of things to come. It can be said the burning police stations helped illuminate the road to freedom. The fight against police crimes led to a resurgence of the African American national movement.”
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Now that im reading what I wrote I don't understand why it would result in the distinctions between types of labor to cease existing.
Is it like if we seperate orange juice from that fact that it came from the raw material of oranges and also seperate it from the fact that it needed the labor of being juiced to produce it as a commodity, its kinda just a vague idea of a commodity that could also be exchanged for any other commodity?
And then the distinction between raw materials and the labor used to transform them doesnt matter because we're being so abstract, which means in this abstraction the types of labor matter as little as the oranges and juicing because it's just for the sake of example?
Or am I completely off and hes not speaking about just this abstraction
@Cowbee@hexbear.net can you plz explain
Sure! Essentially, Marx is talking about the historical process of commodification. Capitalism is unique among modes of production and distribution in that it is dominated by the production of goods for the purpose of exchange, not for direct use. In distinguishing use-value and exchange-value, he is drawing comparison to how the peasantry traditionally produced much of their own tools and goods, whereas in capitalism they own no tools and do not own the goods they produce.
In communism, far in the future, production for the purpose of exchange is replaced by production for the purpose of use. This doesn't mean alienating it from economic planning and resource distribution, to the contrary, it means planning the economy based on raw materials, labor hours, etc.
When Marx speaks of "ending alienation," he's speaking philosophically about the process of the working classes ceasing to recognize the products of their labor as products of their labor, ie no longer seeing themselves in their products. Historically, the working classes, rather than trading their labor-power for money, would trade the fruits of their labor directly, be it tribute to feudal lords from their agrarian production, or the small manufacturing workers and handicraftsman in guild systems selling their created commodities.
Hope that clears it up, if I've understood the question!
Im still kinda confused on what causes the distinction between different kinds of labor to erode, is it caused by workers not like identifying with the work theyre doing and things they help produce?
If I understand your question correctly, it is the general tendency of capitalism to commodify previously uncommodified products. The blacksmith gets phased out in favor of the nail factory, hammer factory, etc, and the direct connection between worker and product is severed. Proletarians are easy to swap around, usually not with specific specialized crafts, because this allows capitalists to keep wages low for fear of replacement.
Is that what you mean?