mistadubalina is, of course, just trying to stir up trouble as he's wont to do. but, likely unwittingly, he touches on some common misconceptions. let's just lay them to rest straightaway.
i prefer to live the dream than read about it...
and yet here you are, making dreadfully unwitty comments on an internet message board.
you haven't the slightest fucking notion of what "living the dream" entails.
re: armchair anarchism & "living the dream"
I'm lucky enough to live in a reasonably tolerant & more important affluent 1st world country so I have never experienced serious repression but I have friends - especially in Mexico - who have. I know ppl on both sides of the border who have been or are in prison. I had trumped up felony charges brought against me but was again lucky enough to have them eventually dropped. An aquaintance was murdered in Mexico last year whilst engaged in political work. To say nothing of Brad Will, or those being prosecuted, validly or not, under the current Green Scare. & on & on, as well as all the names from history.
obv many armchair revolutionaries of all varieties, including anarchists. on the other hand a lot of good people - considerably more worthwhile than m. dubalina, I suspect - have suffered & fought for that stupid dream. It is not all a jolly lark for his or anyone else's stupid, childish whimsy.
I can only speak for myself but I found that action w/out at least some theory, w/out some notion of
what you're doing &
why, is just as useless if not worse than the opposite. "praxis" has the ring of a buzzword, but there you go.
being well-read is not equivalent to be an armchair revolutionary. tho if I am an armchair revolutionary then fine. I'm not politically active now. I was for a long time to the extent that it dominated my life in an unhealthy fashion. haven't been for a couple years. may or may not be again at in the future. either way I don't feel compelled to justify anything. nor should not being active preclude anyone from being able to discuss anything.