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.
Isnt the best way around this to just pretend to be socialist instead of communist? Or socdem or similar
then you have to deal with pretending to be what you aren’t, which is also lying to the people you want to help, that is bad.
If you’re dishonest about where you stand, you can only bring people to where to claim to be. If you claim to be a social-democrat, everything you do for your community will be attributed to social-democracy, and you’d be helping the liberals far more than you’d be helping Marxism.
If people find out you’re actually a Marxist-Leninist while you’re claiming to be a social-democrat, you’ll be labelled an infiltrator and that will only hurt people’s willingness to accept Marxism. Talking about optics is usually a pointless discussion, but the way the ‘on-the-fence-ers’ see our ideology matters. If they think we’re trying to sneak into their organisations to steer them towards what they see as ‘red fascism’, they’re only going to become more hostile.
In this circumstance, it is better to simply stay home and drive Marxism forwards via the keyboard, in the hopes that your efforts are noticed by those who can leave their homes, and are able to organize in their communities. These homebody comrades are just as valuable to the movement as the activists, as long as they actually dedicate their time to progressing the aims.