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I don’t think it does, often times peoples intentions although they think they’re doing good or something leads them to do nothing and can harm the objective.
That’s fair, I guess a more nuance statement would be any meaningful action helps no matter how small. You are completely right that it’s easy to end up doing things that don’t really accomplish anything, and feel like you’re contributing.
I mean i’ve witnessed over the decade of people coming and going that just end up shouting at bricks and windows thinking their building an alternative yet they have acomplished nothing.
Both theory and practice are necessary for effective action. Unfortunately, a lot of people in the west completely discount reading theory and history leading to ineffective action.
I think it’s more important to actually get first hand experience with the means of production where you have agency and perform commodity production outside of price indexs the best you can and literally build an alternative rather than just talk about it.
I don’t think it does, often times peoples intentions although they think they’re doing good or something leads them to do nothing and can harm the objective.
That’s fair, I guess a more nuance statement would be any meaningful action helps no matter how small. You are completely right that it’s easy to end up doing things that don’t really accomplish anything, and feel like you’re contributing.
I mean i’ve witnessed over the decade of people coming and going that just end up shouting at bricks and windows thinking their building an alternative yet they have acomplished nothing.
Both theory and practice are necessary for effective action. Unfortunately, a lot of people in the west completely discount reading theory and history leading to ineffective action.
I think it’s more important to actually get first hand experience with the means of production where you have agency and perform commodity production outside of price indexs the best you can and literally build an alternative rather than just talk about it.
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I don’t think my reply went through so i’ll retype: Said by someone who has a CNC laser engraver, a homelab and somewhat of a printing press.