Revolutionary Organization of Labor

The Revolutionary Organization of Labor, formerly known as the Ray O. Light Group, is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist 1961 splinter group from the Communist Party USA. Contrary to the standard Maoist view of "two line struggle", which posits that a dialectical materialist understanding of socialist relations of production is characterized by struggle between a Marxist-Leninist line and a Right-revisionist line, ROL takes a position that it terms "three line struggle." Believing that the position of the Maoists in the Cultural Revolution led to overlooking the danger of ultraleftism and "left"-revisionism, ROL argues that the Marxist-Leninist position is the center position which must struggle against both "left" and Right lines. For this reason, ROL sees China as having deviated from

Revolutionary Organization of Labor

The Revolutionary Organization of Labor, formerly known as the Ray O. Light Group, is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist 1961 splinter group from the Communist Party USA. Contrary to the standard Maoist view of "two line struggle", which posits that a dialectical materialist understanding of socialist relations of production is characterized by struggle between a Marxist-Leninist line and a Right-revisionist line, ROL takes a position that it terms "three line struggle." Believing that the position of the Maoists in the Cultural Revolution led to overlooking the danger of ultraleftism and "left"-revisionism, ROL argues that the Marxist-Leninist position is the center position which must struggle against both "left" and Right lines. For this reason, ROL sees China as having deviated from