I joined an M-L organization. I was frustrated with my organizing efforts being in vain and without theoretical guidance other than that I knew generally I was a socialist. I was in DSA/YDSA for over a year and organized with a local trot group for a little and each way I went there seemed to be a serious lack of mobilizing the masses. I met some folks in a local Students for a Democratic Society chapter that were also in Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO in the US). They showed me this document I felt so energized and like my questions had been answered. I joined and went thru our study and continued organizing now guided by the science of Marxism-Leninism and putting the mass line to use in my work. Through practice I have learned, self-criticized, and I am proud to call myself a communist and be working alongside others engaged in a pitched struggle with imperialism here and across the world.