Yep I'd join a vanguard party if one materialized in the US (sorry tankies I really don't think that will happen before the US implodes), in the meantime there's so much work you can do within an anarchist framework to prepare communities in the imperial core for its inevitable collapse.

The biggest priority should be creating a safety net of mutual aid networks to respond to people's material needs during the many crises ahead, this way we can demonstrate our ideology in practice while hopefully educating people on why we do what we do.

I like Graeber's take on anarchism, it's not something you are it's something you do. Food Not Bombs for example is one of the most prominent anarchist groups in the US, but tons of people of all sorts of ideologies participate and work with them. So, is the dedicated FNB volunteer who also attends a Marxist-Leninist reading group an anarchist or an ML? Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers were largely Maoists, but where is the line between mutual aid and Mass Line?