CPUSA has been deeply infiltrated by feds for decades. I have no idea why anyone would waste their time and energy with them in 2023 when it's obviously a honeypot

You find one marginally less cringe and hope for the best. The day to day work is generally less online.

The other option is to work via non party orgs. Food banks, unions, protest groups, and attempt to inject revolutionary theory into them. This is sometimes hard for more party centric tendencies to cope with though.

This statement is probably risking a rank and file split in CPUSA.

Obviously the answer is to never touch grass and keep posting

you become a doomer and pray every day that the West is just completely destroyed

I don't know how PW relates to the party line, but I do know basically anyone can submit articles to it. It's a super bad look though and they need to get their shit togeather.

CPUSA is kind of a special case in terms of "Real and once-productive org that has been 100% coopted". That said, individual chapters of any org are often way more radical than the head, so what you should do is research what is active in your area (PCUSA, PSL, DSA, FNB, etc.) and just pick whatever seems the best or most viable for you. Waiting for something perfect to emerge to hitch your wagon to is an exercise in futility. Very few of us like the central authority of any of these orgs, but that doesn't mean there aren't individuals doing good work in their community.

I'm torn between be a splitter and join the pre established party and really encourage other young leftists to do so as well cause the old guard is old and few and I do think reactionary elements like this need to be pruned from the party rather than constantly starting over from zero. In a case like this I don't really know if there would be any difference

If you're in no orgs and don't know your local landscape very well, join the largest org in your area that you can stomach and use it to gain practical organizing skills and a network of people that know other organizers. Prepare to see people have terrible takes. Become comfortable with not reacting to them.

Use this opportunity to feel out whether there are other people in the org that are cool like you and what other orgs are out there. Once you have da skills, either start doing work primarily with the cool people or join a better org. In the former case, do your best to politically educate all of your comrades about your work - you don't need to make a clique, but you'll have a much better time with the org if people have your back during strategy meetings. If your org doesn't have strategy meetings that's a sign that it sucks and you'll either have to take it over for it to be useful or just bail to an org that does have them.

There's really no point to organizing in the imperial core, either try and leave or go grill pill and stop guilt tripping yourself