{"id":1740,"date":"2009-03-13T00:55:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T14:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2009-03-13T00:55:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T14:55:11","slug":"we-are-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"We Are Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>&#8220;The greatness of Lenin is that he WASN\u2019T AFRAID TO SUCCEED.&#8221; ~ Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom; for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.&#8221; ~ William Blake<\/ul>\n<p>Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a Marxist party in the United States. Actually, two Marxist parties in the United States; the party split in 1999, with both factions seeking to retain the title. Ten years later, they&#8217;re still at it.<\/p>\n<p>One distinct advantage that the <a href=\"http:\/\/freedomroad.org\">FRSO<\/a> has over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frso.org\">FRSO<\/a> is the provision of a terrific <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomroad.org\/staticfiles\/familytree\/basictree.html\">Family Tree<\/a> outlining the development of various Marxist groups from the 1960s through to the year 2000.<\/p>\n<p>One of the groups which dissolved into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomroad.org\/\">FRSO<\/a> (post-2000) was the &#8216;Fire by Night Organizing Committee&#8217;. FbN was in turn a product of the dissolution in May 1998 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071226104719\/www.loveandrage.org\/\">Love<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/libcom.org\/library\/nine-years-of-the-love-and-rage-revolutionary-anarchist-federation-1989-1998-wayne-price\">Rage<\/a> Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (<em>See<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070928163914\/loveandrage.org\/?q=afterwinter\">After Winter Must Come Spring: A Self-Critical Analysis of the Love &#038; Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation<\/a>).<\/p>\n<ul>&#8216;Love and Rage&#8217; was also the name adopted by a leftist student grouping in Australia. L&#038;R was originally titled the &#8216;Libertarian Communist Collective&#8217;, and emerged in 1998 as a tendency within the &#8216;Left Alliance&#8217; student group. Based largely in NSW, L&#038;R eventually dissolved c.2003, but before doing so was responsible for introducing autonomist Marxism to a number of students, having a small number of its members elected to various student union bodies, and taking part in the usual gamut of leftist student activism.<\/ul>\n<p>Another organisational by-product of the dissolution of L&#038;R was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringtheruckus.org\/\">&#8216;Bring the Ruckus&#8217;<\/a> (BTR) collective. Like FbN, it formally abandoned anarchism, and placed a central emphasis upon fighting white supremacy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BTR emerged in the wake of the death of &#8216;Love and Rage&#8217; and the \u201cSeattle\u201d protests. When L&#038;R was splitting, BTR was a logical outcome of one of the positions on race within Love and Rage. A few former L&#038;R members are currently members in BTR. The Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) was also important to both BTR and <em>Race Traitor<\/em>. Former STO members are in both BTR and <em>Race Traitor<\/em>. STO, which was one of the tendencies in [the] \u201cNew Communist Movement\u201d of the 1970s, also focused on importance of fighting the color line. These different organizations and journal also belong to a certain common tendency among revolutionaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On STO (1969&#8211;1985), <em>see<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sojournertruth.net\/\">STO Digital Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the groups from which L&#038;R drew members was the Marxist &#8216;Revolutionary Socialist League&#8217; (1973&#8211;1989). Upon L&#038;R&#8217;s disbandment, a number of these former Marxists proceeded into groups which formed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nefac.net\/\">&#8216;Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists&#8217;<\/a> (NEFAC) in 2002. One who did not is Ron Tabor. Instead, Tabor became involved in the publication of another zine, &#8216;The Utopian&#8217;. Prior to this, in 1987, Tabor authored a series of articles for the RSL&#8217;s zine &#8216;Torch&#8217;\/<em>La Antorcha<\/em>. These were later published as a pamphlet titled <a href=\"http:\/\/library.nothingness.org\/articles\/SA\/en\/display\/366\">&#8216;A Look At Leninism&#8217;<\/a> (and then as a series of articles in the <em>L&#038;R<\/em> newspaper). In a recent, 2008 issue of <em>The Utopian<\/em>, Gustavo Rodr\u00edguez returns to a similar theme in &#8216;Leninism without Lenin&#8217;\/<em>&#8216;Aproximaciones al Leninismo sin Lenin&#8217;<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utopianmag.com\/content\/83\/93\/243971297.pdf\">PDF<\/a>); the essay critiques the re-emergence of a neo-&#8216;Platfomist&#8217; tendency within anarchism.<\/p>\n<p>On the bus to oblivion, ideological fashions, like political organisations, come and go.<\/p>\n<p><em>Take it away Jayne!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1-0c4lgvpb4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The greatness of Lenin is that he WASN\u2019T AFRAID TO SUCCEED.&#8221; ~ Slavoj \u017di\u017eek &#8220;The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom; for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.&#8221; ~ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1740\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anarchism","category-history","category-trot-guide"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-s4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}