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.
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.
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