Seeing the conversations around this topic in the post Most Western Parties Are Ossified and Failures I thought some folks might find value in this organizing guide created by USU. It draws from numerous articles they’ve written about organizing ML orgs from the ground up.
Neither was the IWW a “failure.”
Or the CPUSA during its heyday.
Or the anti-war peace movement for Vietnam.
Or NAARPR and NAIMSAL