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I think the ideals of anarchy left are great. But we should treat them more like classical liberals treated their, "state of nature". It wasn't a goal, it was a guiding metric. The progressives of the time theorized that humans are naturally good and that's why we can have democracies. That's a huge simplification but it's to make my point. Instead of actually trying for anarchy we should be trying to use and mold government to achieve outcomes.
For example anti-capitalism. If we tried to go into anarchy one of the biggest dangers is actually corporate feudalism. Where corporations become the default law. Instead we should be regulating corporations and making it clear that anything other than normal business under a 5 percent market share is illegal. We should be requiring unions. Then with the government itself, we get it out of our daily lives. Other than taxes and voting, it should not be something we interact with regularly. Armed police should not be a ubiquitous sight. We should be able to grow our own veggies without the government showing up to stop that.
There's so much we can do, that complete disengagement from the project of the state seems to me to be counter productive to actually helping people. In another example, one of the most powerful tools we have are Unions. But without government protection we know cooperations will do everything up to and including murdering their work force to prevent unionization. And yeah we can murder them right back. But there's always guns for money, so that's not a winning battle.