So I do more work with PSL folks, but I've noticed FRSO filling in gaps in terms of mutual aid and the like. Largely positive experiences as someone who's not in any actual party (dogshit schedule, ya know?).

i was a member of my local chapter for a brief period before i learned that one of the leaders was a horrible person and the rest of the leaders were covering it up for him, so i left. thats chapter specific, but just a reminder that these problems still exist in some chapters. despite it being significantly smaller than PSL, i liked the people more. it seemed like more people actually had read theory. however it was a very white, cis, and straight group from what i could tell. there were also very few women and fem-presenting folks in general, at their social events i was one of maybe three. this did lead to a kinda dude-bro-y environment that wasn't incredibly toxic, but i just don't enjoy that kind of atmosphere myself and if you don't, be warned. their events are great though. sorry i can't say more, it was a really brief stint. there just isnt a lot to say about them in general though because they're really small. they do have some really cool members though, i met some who participated in the chicano movement of the 60s-70s.

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Maybe I should look into these folks some more. I know it sounds really silly but one of the things that turned me away from the PSL was that they use Google Forms to collect all their member's information during the registration process and the fact that it seems like most people I've talked to about joining them have either never heard back from them or have been sent in circles.

There was an FRSO guy on the Upstream podcast recently, explaining dialectical materialism. The host also asked him about the org, so he explained a good bit there

Allegedly the less problematic alternative to PSL, although I believe part of that perception is because ~~warning uncharitable and rude take ahead)nobody knows what they actually believe~~ they’re smaller, ofc

They let me borrow their Lambo once, very cool people

I can tell you for a fact they have no presence in Alaska.

Then again nobody does, except me, maybe some dude in CPUSA, and, I haven't heard anything out of them for a while but then again I wasn't really looking into them because they fucking suck, a few DSA nerds

They seem nice enough. They're running the Coalition to March on the DNC, in Chicago, which is meant to be a united front effort. I'm not a member and haven't interacted with them too much.

They don’t view themselves as a vanguard party, nor do they feel there is one in the USA yet. Their approach is focused on being the “headlights for the masses” by focusing on using the Mass Line within working class and national liberation movements or mass orgs, taking their needs and using Marxist-Leninism to address the immediate needs and tie it to the larger strategic goals of uniting the working class and national liberation movements towards revolution.

They focus on identifying the “advanced” within the masses who are the masses chosen leaders within unions, labor movements, and national liberation movements to help implement the above to reach the “intermediate” (vast majority of these movements) while protecting against the backwards, reactionary, or opportunists who move these movements away from liberators and revolutionary potential.

Recruit those among the advanced into Cadre and empower them with the tools of Marxism-Leninism.

Making communists.

I dig it.

I fuck with them