1: Join a communist org based on whether your ideological positions align with their stated party line regardless of whether there's a local presence in your area or not. Getting your foot in the door to actually being a communist and not a terminally online larper is the biggest first step you can take. One more thing, actually take the time to read the ideological positions, membership requirements, and other party documents of whatever org strikes your interest to make sure you fully know what you're getting yourself in to.
2: Dedicate yourself to doing the collective work that comes in building your party. The next big step after joining a party is consistently doing party work. This can take many forms ranging from doing work to support larger cells such as if you have graphical art skills you can help design agitprop for your comrades to distribute. This also extends to being willing to learn new skills to help the party that can help you in your own private life, ranging from learning web design and setting up internet infrastructure, organizational
level accounting and financial record keeping, or even on-the-ground administrative work in organizing non-political people into political groups or building political alliances between pre-existing political groups in addition to learning how to navigate the state bureaucratic system in order to use the bourgeoisie own book of laws against them to publically build public perception of the existence of Communists and what we stand for.
3: if for some reason you do not fit with the party you joined after a good period of time (1 year at minimum in my opinion. It's enough time to learn about the group your in, the people on it, the level of work they're doing, the goals they set, etc. Don't be one of those loser individualists that come in saying they know all the answers and will lead the party to communism then immediately quit to join another party and repeat the process. There is very few things more frustrating for both the recruiters and the recruited than having your efforts be an objective waste of time) then it is perfectly understandable to leave your party on good terms and then repeat your search for a new party you fit in but as a more experienced organizer that can help bring their wealth of experience to their new group and mutually enrich their movement.
1: Join a communist org based on whether your ideological positions align with their stated party line regardless of whether there's a local presence in your area or not. Getting your foot in the door to actually being a communist and not a terminally online larper is the biggest first step you can take. One more thing, actually take the time to read the ideological positions, membership requirements, and other party documents of whatever org strikes your interest to make sure you fully know what you're getting yourself in to.
2: Dedicate yourself to doing the collective work that comes in building your party. The next big step after joining a party is consistently doing party work. This can take many forms ranging from doing work to support larger cells such as if you have graphical art skills you can help design agitprop for your comrades to distribute. This also extends to being willing to learn new skills to help the party that can help you in your own private life, ranging from learning web design and setting up internet infrastructure, organizational level accounting and financial record keeping, or even on-the-ground administrative work in organizing non-political people into political groups or building political alliances between pre-existing political groups in addition to learning how to navigate the state bureaucratic system in order to use the bourgeoisie own book of laws against them to publically build public perception of the existence of Communists and what we stand for.
3: if for some reason you do not fit with the party you joined after a good period of time (1 year at minimum in my opinion. It's enough time to learn about the group your in, the people on it, the level of work they're doing, the goals they set, etc. Don't be one of those loser individualists that come in saying they know all the answers and will lead the party to communism then immediately quit to join another party and repeat the process. There is very few things more frustrating for both the recruiters and the recruited than having your efforts be an objective waste of time) then it is perfectly understandable to leave your party on good terms and then repeat your search for a new party you fit in but as a more experienced organizer that can help bring their wealth of experience to their new group and mutually enrich their movement.