Ask Lemmygrad

Attach yourself to the hip with the peoples’ movements. That can mean anything from immigrants rights, tenant and workers unions, community defense, mutual aid societies to student organizing and LGBTQ+ advocacy.

The point is to use your knowledge of Marxism to advance the struggle to levels impossible under liberalism, and then you win over people to Marxism through your practice.

You’re never going to win over people to Marxism by mere persuasion alone. You need to show them in real-life the scientific nature of Marxism.

Edit: For your specific case, you need to focus your efforts on a campaign. Use your knowledge of the local area to see what issue students care the most about and then organize around that issue. If people care about said issue and your outreach is good, people from the community will come forward and join you.

Edit2: When choosing an issue, the more existential it is to a particular constituency, the better. That’s how you get hard-working activists.

I also have to say that my recruiting style has been influence alot by chernyshevsky and his organizing work. Specifically providing material aid to other youth and then directing them to marxism.

The answer I arrived at after much thought and trial and error is kinda you don't. The framing of recruiting as I see it is not that effective, the way to do it is to be close to the masses, and help people, preferably in an organized fashion, with no strings attached, and along with the help you talk to people even some people with quite different views from yours and listen to them and have conversations, like about hobbies about their work about family stuff, establish a relationship of respect with people, once you get that they'll listen to you when you talk about why things are the way they are, and the idea is to give people the tools to judge their own reality, and if your organization is doing things well the natural consequence is that some people will join. But if you lead with the dump of information uprooting their worldview and often antagonizing the views of people who they respect or love, you will almost always be seen as a raving lunatic because for that person's life and social relations it's a lot easier to ignore you and keep their old views, so to change that you gotta be part of the person's life, be the friend of the people, operative word, FRIEND

Edit 1: and when I said to help the people I mean things like what VaqueroRed said about social movements or even what you say about material help, those are very good mechanisms

I would start a reading group and put up flyers around your college or distribute them at protests, use the reading group to get people in the door and tie the reading to contemporary issues in a way that leads to thinking of what could be done to work on those problems and then begin organizing around those issues with the reading group crew.

organise around a specific issue in your area