reformed liberal

I was a liberal until I saw a banksy painting, now I'm an anarchist with an interest in the arts

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a society built upon waste and exploitation

Sounds like USSR.

he has no meaningful way to fight against

He has. Just participate in or start a revolution; it's what all real leftists have done. Lenin could've stayed in Switzerland and enjoyed a quiet and rich life, but he did something else instead.

nor a viable alternative if he wishes to stay alive

Declining to use iPhones or drink coffee is not in any way connected to death. Are you literally so brainwashed by consumerism and marketing that you think people die if you take their iPhones away? God, what a moron.

Not using an iPhone is not exactly a meaningful political maneuver

It is. Because using it wreaks of hypocrisy in a leftist.