So the real question is how do people develop revolutionary consciousness; how do we get from where workers are now to a radical understanding. You suggested in another discussion that it will be from people learning about socialism/anarchism and getting an understanding of communism that will lead to a revolution. If people don't get this consciousness through struggle and radicalization, it seems like you are suggesting that socialist consciousness can only come from propagandizing and spreading the word.
Although I think it's obviously important to figure out politics and try to understand how to change the world, action is just as important: people have to strike and then ask why the bosses won't let them have a simple common sense (to workers) raise or benefit for our politics to be relevant to them.