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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.

Congress

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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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Link to the 🐼 Hexbear Matrix Chat https://matrix.to/#/#Hexbear:matrix.org pflp-octoplushie

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 2 points 39 minutes ago

(pretend you’re seeing this post a few days ago when ye put that apology in the newspaper) he’s trying to take the yeezy way out

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 2 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 45 minutes ago

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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 1 points 31 minutes ago

I had a really great bowl of lentil soup for dinner from a local hole in the wall restaurant. It tasted kinda beefy, even though they definitely didn't use any beef stock in it—the chef said they added marmite to it??

Set me back $5. I am very full and very happy.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

Today's discussion of Lemmy and piefed made me want to learn the basics of Rust programming-communism I guess carcinization also applies to lefty software devs

some rusty code, results of about three or four hours with https://doc.rust-lang.org/, not much but I'm self-teaching here

fn main() {
    counttoten();
    countdown();
    timestables();
    find_target(create_grid(5, 5), 50);
    find_target(create_grid(10, 10), 50);
}

fn counttoten() {
    let mut x: i32 = 1;
    loop {
        println!("Counting to ten!  {x}");
        x += 1;
        if x > 10 {
            break
        }
    }
}

fn countdown() {
    let mut x: i32 = 10;
    while x > 0 {
        println!("Counting Down!  {x}");
        x -= 1;
    }
}

fn timestables() {
    for x in 1..=3 {
        for y in 1..=3 {
            let z: i32 = x * y;
            println!("{x} times {y} is {z}")
        }
    }
}

fn find_target(grid: Vec<Vec<i32>>, target: i32) -> bool {
    let mut found = false;
    'search: for row in grid {
        for value in row {
            if value == target {
                println!("Found {target}!");
                found = true;
                break 'search;                
            }
        }
    }
        
    if found {
        true
    } else {
        println!("Did not find {target}.");
        false
    }
}

fn create_grid(rows: usize, cols: usize) -> Vec<Vec<i32>> {
    let mut grid = Vec::new();
    let mut gridcounter = 1;

    for _ in 0..rows {
        let mut row = Vec::new();
        for _ in 0..cols {
            row.push(gridcounter);
            gridcounter += 1;
        }
        grid.push(row);
    }

    grid
}

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

has the blorp crew watched zootopia 2 yet?

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago
[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago

There are so many rust-darkness revelations in the latest Epstein emails.

Moot, the creator of 4chan, launched /pol/ on the same day he met Jeffrey Epstein.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

Squirt Vonnegut

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 6 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

So bad times. My landlord is kicking me out in 60 days and I have to figure out how to swing a safe place for me and my cats again.

I might start posting craigslist spare bedroom ads just for ragebait. All I want to do is contact these people and verbally shame them.

HEY! ANYBODY WANT TO LIVE IN A TRAILER IN SOME GUY'S BACK YARD FOR A FUCKING GRAND A MONTH??

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 2 points 57 minutes ago

I'd send him a counter offer at a more reasonable price. You never know, maybe he just needs a reality check.

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Did you hit up this guy and talk shit? I do that sometimes to get my anger out. Especially on job listings. It's bonkers that people are charging 800 for a room and not even have a private bathroom.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm confused, shame people that want to live in a spare bedroom?

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

No, I want to shame landlords for shit like "no kitchen access"

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

Can I read Das Kapital without take notes, like a casual book?

[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Someone made reddit for chatbots

internet-delenda-est

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ages ago before chatgpt was a thing there was a reddit gpt thing and /r/chapotraphouse was simulated on it and it was kinda funny

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 2 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago)

That was fun because it was the most incoherent markov chain stuff with a bit of randomization, so you'd be able to read the "personality" of each subreddit by the words that it used the most often.

Now it's just slop.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

The funniest thing about prison camps is that even though Western media loves portraying them as super bad and evil, and where evil countries put their prisoners, the literal definition is that they're less strict and have less dangerous prisoners than an actual prison. Generally they do labor, but so do most normal prisons.

Often they're even run by prisoner, with guards just being along the perimeter and keeping them inside. I don't think this is common in the US, but a lot of prisons around the world have elections and prisoners with positions of real power in the prison. People with real leadership outside of prison generally can't run, but still, it's quite common and a right that's only taken away for big bads.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

Did a lil gunpla photoshoot. Most were nothing to write home about, but this picture of my Gouf custom turned out amazing. Lit with desk lamps and black construction paper

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

That short of Jon Berthnal saying how he doesn't trust a guy who naps, reminded me of a short where guy was like " I don't trust someone who's heading for the donuts at a business meeting in the morning. You have a whole day ahead of you and you're already on that sugar high clouding your judgment". Shit had me in tears, those grindset videos are hilarious

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

Does anyone know if there's any way to use the Hexbear emojis with Emote, or rofimoji, or HyprEmoji? Any of the Linux emoji pickers?

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago

Same kit, one month of practice difference. I didnt bother re-arttaching the parts of the older one that fell off in the box while lying still, cause if I built it good it wouldnt do that.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Where is that post about the guy who wanted to do manual labor in the USSR but they made him be a college professor?

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 5 hours ago

My parents being absolutely amazing in regards to my Gunpla habit or really any time I get into arts n crafts stuff: those guys drove an hour out of town and picked me up an EZ8

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't burn or under cook my food, but a secret third thing.

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

texture is unexpected?

[–] WokePalpitoad@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

What did all of those game devs that were like "we're going to make a game with blockchain technology" like 3-5 years ago - especially a bunch of Japanese devs - what did they think it actually was? Because they weren't talking about it like it'd use crypto currency. And a lot of these are coders and stuff, or people who are around computers a lot at least, so it's not as if they are unable to understand what it is. It was really bizarre. A lot of people fall for hype even when you're pressing them they don't seem to realize they don't know what the fuck they're talking about.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago

i forget the dude's name but there's a youtube channel or two that looks at NFT games derisively

squeenix and whoever never released anything using it that i know of, maybe they will after star citizen.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 5 hours ago

So when the Digimon localization team headed by Leonard Nimoy's nephew were adapting Adventure 02, how long do you think they discussed whether or not to change the name of Blackwargreymon? Cause there's the racial thing but also, goddammit what a bad name. Black and grey are both in there, which are the colour's he is, Greymon doesnt have a speck of grey so I guess whatever, but throwing 'war' between two colors is awkward.

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago

it is january 30 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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