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My personal belief is that anarchy would require both organizations that monitor and combat these types of movements early in their development and very strong social norms to prevent people from falling for strongman arguments.
Remember that basically all social organizations in our current society are organized hierarchically, and this means people are more or less indoctrinated to think this is good and natural. It will take time and effort, but this must be deconstructed and mental and social defenses to domination must be built. Most humans naturally hate being dominated but this instinct is harshly repressed in childhood, usually through schooling. If we stop doing this, the world may look very different.
In certain highly egalitarian foraging societies, there are customs that harshly enforce humility and punish braggarts. It starts with public criticism but those who continue to behave arrogantly may eventually be exiled from the group or even killed.
This may seem harsh but unfortunately, there may always be a minority of people too credulous to see through BS. So this kind of behavior needs to be nipped in the bud before it becomes a problem.
Would those organizations be, by definition, a government?
Not in my opinion, no. They would be subordinated to the collective as a whole rather than above it, and would be organized in a horizontal way. This would also be their sole task, so they would have no other powers.
There is a risk they could become an authoritarian force over time, so society should remain vigilant against this and remove any individuals who start to gather undue power immediately.
Ultimately if a society can learn to have every individual engaged in this anti-authoritarianism to an extent that such an organization is no longer needed, that might be ideal. We can ideate all we want but ultimately we won’t know what is most effective until we start trying these ideas out.