laugh as much as you want about DIY punks, upcyclers, homesteaders and zero-waste people.
of course it's not gonna bring about the revolution but do you really think we can just go on living like we do *after* a revolution, if there's ever going to be such a thing?
we'll have be to be smart, we need to understand how things work, how we can make them work. buying from a cooperative won't turn our economic system into socialism but the people in that co-op are still figuring out how to do our work in the future. we'll need organisational, processual knowledge more than anything if we manage to topple capitalism.
and these efforts are still worth so much more than any "nothing is good enough for me so I'll resort to complaining" online communism / online anarchism.