There are plenty of members, though our focus is less on building up members in FRSO (that is important though) and more on agitating the masses and getting them involved in mass organizations. We understand that there is not a dominant working class party in the US, and that there likely will not be a major uptick in explicit communist organizing in time before shit really hits the fan (climate change, serious war, etc.)

The goal is to funnel the masses to organizations that are not explicitly communist but hold similar principles that are easier for the average USian to grasp and get behind - local anti-war, anti-bigotry, unionization, things of that nature. They are not fronts for the party and they are ran by members of the “masses” themselves, i.e. I as an FRSO member could in theory be removed from the local mass orgs I am in.

The mass line is very important to FRSO’s method of organizing and important to successfully enacting a revolution in general. FRSO or any other explicit communist party will never reach the numbers that a mass organization would, especially in the US.

So while you’re correct that there aren’t (as) many cadre in FRSO proper compared to other orgs, there exists a large base of GMs and almost every single organization that is not a front for some other party exists because of FRSO. Take Students for a Democratic Society as an example.

This is not to say we don’t want FRSO to have a solid influence on these mass orgs; in practice the most dedicated and hard-working organizers in them are FRSO and we celebrate that as communists because then the socialist movement has a solid way to influence and educate the masses. But we cannot go about organizing just recruiting for communism in the US, at least not yet.

There’s more reading on the website, frso.org

But all in all, we are a deeply serious organization with cadre who go through extensive political education and exercises, and many of them have years if not decades of experience. I don’t want to throw shade or anything of that sort to other parties, but I can confidently say when the revolution comes busting through the US, FRSO will have had the largest “market share” in terms of impact/credit for it.

Further, FRSO is one of the only existing parties to have been raided by the FBI, and we wear that badge with honor.