I don’t disincourage from organizing if your only option is the CPUSA. Organizing in reformist ^[1] parties can be a learning experience too, I guess.

[1] "The CPUSA has long said the transition to US socialism will be much more prolonged and complex. The left’s challenge is to involve the active participation of the overwhelming majority of Americans. Just like the socialist society we envision - peaceful, humane and democratic - so too must be the path as it will shape every aspect of the new society.

Marx and Engels foresaw the possibility of peaceful transition particularly under conditions of the democratic or bourgeois republic. Engels wrote in Critique of the Erfurt Program: “One can conceive that the old society may develop peacefully into the new one in countries where representatives of the people concentrate all power in their hands, where, if one has the support of the majority of the people, one can do as one sees fit in a constitutional way; in democratic republics such as France and the USA…” (…) (link)"

This was written by the Chairman of CPUSA from 2014 – 2019. Sure, with a completely distorted and undemocratic voting process, Statians can surely safely transition to socialism. This is a reformist party today, and it is one since the 30’s and 40’s with its browderism that corrupted communist parties worldwide.

To use uncritically a quote like this, which contradicts the work did by Marx and Engels in their whole lifetimes is the most disgraceful opportunism you can find. I mean, they use this precise quote, besides having a sea of other works where Marx and Engels advocate for the violent overthrow of bourgeois domination. This is absolute reformist garbage, but I guess organizing in it has its values. Sorry, I changed my mind, I absolutely disincourage anyone from organizing in CPUSA. Please try PSL, they at least have had some theoretical development over the years.