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If you want something visual, this short video (15:12) gives a more practical explanation for labour theory of value.

This relatively short section of “Wage Labour and Capital” addresses the specific issue of how labour value translates into prices in a straightforward way.

Lots of typical US individualism and non-answers in this thread. Freedom Road Socialist Organisation and Party for Social Liberation both are principled ML organisations. The former has a competent agitation platform on Fight Back News and the latter organised lots of protests with their A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition recently and is an actual party. Yes both have their problems.

But both have contact and join forms on their websites, and communist organisations are always starved of active members so any help will be appreciated and they’ll probably know how you could do something in your area. Try to contact/join both, that way if either takes too long you guarantee a higher chance of response. Read both their programmes. And don’t be sectarian.

If you’re feeling spicy there could also be an SRA chapter near you. Besides that if you ever go to any protest or action, try to ask around which organisations people are part of and hang out with the most dedicated ones. Even if they’re in something like the DSA, you don’t need to join them to work with them. And again, communists orgs are always starved of good members who want to do something.

I don’t think any first world communist organization is worth joining. “The gendarmes” have a infiltrators in every public communist org. They are a trap. Secrecy is one of the most important aspects of a revolutionary org as laid out by Lenin in What is to be Done.

I’m not sure how you took away from Lenin’s WitbD that secrecy is so much more important than democratic centralism, organised action or the party publishing apparatus for agitation and propaganda (in their case, a newspaper). If anything what I took from the book about secrecy was more along the lines “sadly we can’t go too much in detail due to secrecy”. I also don’t remember it tying back much to guerilla warfare (specially since they were too far away from civil war at that point), though it’s been a while.

Of course do engage in opsec, but this seems like some anarchoid deviation from Marxism-Leninism. Specially considering the US is still too far away from a guerilla warfare situation. There is action that requires secrecy, but that wouldn’t be handled by people like OP with no previous experience organising. I’d be genuinely interested to hear where you got those ideas from in Lenin and Mao.

An online space like lemmygrad is a great way to keep in contact after cutting ties without risking security.

Please don’t use public and federated with cache forums as a place to connect with others if secrecy is that necessary. You might as well doxx yourself, the fediverse is an OSINT nightmare.