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Depends on your area, but the first step is to join a party. They'll have work for you to do if they're run well, good orgs always will. If you're in the US Empire, FRSO and PSL are both pretty good options, see which one is more active in your area.
If you need a place to start with theory, I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading guide, feel free to give it a look!
I don't know what FRSO's onboarding is like, but
's is pretty thorough. It'll take a month at least before you get formally brought into the party. That would be as a candidate member, which is a period of training and education that lasts about a year until you're a full member. The recruitment situation in various branches is different based on their particular needs, so it may be they accelerate you through or you go through a bit of a waiting period because they have tons of people to onboard and need to vet everyone appropriately.
I'd recommend joining the PSL Action Network in the meantime, which a peripheral structure to the party where you support the work, get materials, and are brought in on volunteer opportunites.
I wish PSL would contact me a bit more tbh. I signed up for membership a few months ago and the only correspondence I’ve received was a text message asking for my address to send me materials which haven’t come in yet. Maybe I’ll reach back out to them since, up until this thread, I assumed it was normal to move a bit slow.
Definitely reach back out. I think everyone in the party acknowledges this issue in our recruiting - we get more people applying than we can handle, and it inevitably leads to people slipping through the cracks. We've expanded a lot of our recruitment systems and things have gotten much better, but it's still got a ways to go.
It helps for the recruit to be proactive. The best thing you can do is show up to an event and talk to people in person.