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That's cool and all but that's local tier good-samaritan stuff. While it's good, it will never overthrow the system.
It’s absurd to not help someone now because you could also do something highly theoretical and better in the future. Both things should happen.
Condemning the world's largest resistance in its fight against the empire because of some "theoretical future" where Anarchists once again are incapable of organising any armed uprising because they don't have a leadership structure is the only thing that happens.
Some people want a revolution and some people want their community fed. These are not mutually exclusive and I’m happy people are doing anything at all instead of hooking themselves up to the short form content IV every night like the vast majority.
OK, so what are you doing to make a revolution happen?
I won't speak for Geneva (Geneva isn't a Marxist) but Marxists advocate for revolutionary party building. You can't force a revolution into happening, but you can absolutely prepare for one and build the organ needed to carry it out. Herr's a good diagram:
This explains the role of the party in forming a vanguard. This is the historically proven revolutionary strategy that has established socialism in many countries around the world.
What do you think anarchism is all about...?
Failing to overthrow the system
Usually, both Marxists and anarchists are aligned on believing systemic change is necessary, not just individual and local charity to patch holes in the existing system.