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I see this a lot nowadays in a lot of these big tent activist amalgams where the word they lump together under is "radicals". What does this mean? "Radical" means "from the root" and if you lump together let's say another generic label "anti-capiltalists" the root of problems for them is capitalism, compared to anarchists who will say the root of the problems is domination/obedience. Other use the word "radical" to mean "extremists", so you have radlibs and radfems and whatever. Given the tone of the text, we can assume they circumscribe to lefties and not the far-right, and definitely not radfems because that has become synonymous with terfs in some circles, so communists, anarchists, liberals, hippies, ancaps or ? . So "radicals" it seems is just whatever group of wingnutty randos that happened to want to fiddle around with tech.

Parting from this weak and unquestioned starting point, they say "As a strategy writ large, “technicalizing radicals” is one with boundless potential, while “radicalizing techies” has proven to be a disastrous waste of time."

How does that even work? I imagine a conversation:

"Are you a radical?"

-"Yeah, I'm totally pretty edgy, dude. I dig Anonymous. I have a V for Vendetta mask in my drawer and everything."

"Excellent! When can you start? I will tech you computer science courses and we will make Internet!"

-"Cool! I can't wait to be sysadmin or a mod or whatever and send emails to you about sending emails."

I guess a radical carpentry club sounds less cool, but it's kinda the same thing.