No disrespect meant.

By armchair socialists I mean: like you won’t go out to protests, wont try to talk to your neighbors about organizing etc. Just slacktivism like changing your profile picture to pride during pride week and posting on lemmy at best.

Yeah I get that a bunch of netizens probably have mental health problems, but I bet my life that other activists over history have had severe mental/physical health problems but still went out, at least sometimes.

    • Catradora-Stalinism☭
      7•2 years ago

      Anarchists, liberals, and many communists are trying to do material work without improving their ideological basis, they cannot truly organize without such ideology.

        • Catradora-Stalinism☭
          4•2 years ago

          CHAZ would be one. With proper revolutionary conscious and organization, they could have liberated the entire city! They fell to infighting easily, and were then subjected to US steel. All mutual aid groups as well seem to not be expanding their efforts for a revolutionary capacity, which is fair, but may be their undoing.

          • @meloo@lemmy.perthchat.orgOP
            3•2 years ago

            With chaz, surely there must have been a sizable number of well read communists there. But that still didn’t accomplish like city wide liberation.

            I do agree that anarchists seems more city block by block focused

            • Catradora-Stalinism☭
              3•2 years ago

              Perhaps, but with more liberal leaning cities or at least mentalities, we do not know if they had any control over such things. It may not have helped anyway. It would have most likely been crushed anyway, the USA needs a full rising of class consciousness to even a basic degree, and that seems like a monumental task itself.

              Don’t get me wrong though, community development is important, but it is necessary for further development to be the goal, and community development a tool or a way by which to reach it, not the goal itself.

              • @meloo@lemmy.perthchat.orgOP
                3•2 years ago

                I read a bit about the spanish war. It seemed pretty clear that the anarchists had no chance against the fascists military, but the communists mounted a good fight. Which i remember as the anarchists being more focused on community dev

          • @meloo@lemmy.perthchat.orgOP
            2•2 years ago

            Also, i don’t know much much free time you have, but i would extremely impressed and jump ship to your ideology if you could whip !antiwork@lemmy.ml’s matrix/discord/telegram chat into something vaguely revolutionary. I have no idea why most participants are even there. They seem to oppose:

            We’re trying to improving working conditions and pay.

We’re trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.

We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.