This series of comments comes from this link and is how various authors answered the question:
Is the Anarchist Ideal Achievable?
We can say of the anarchist idea—or, rather, anarchist ideas—what Buffon has said of genius: that it is a long patience.
To cause these ideas to descend from the consciousness where they soar, in order to give them, in our society, life in sentiment, that is not only possible, but, to the credit of the human spirit, it is seen every day.
To given them, in that same society, the life of action, is still only possible sporadically, if I may express myself so badly…, which amounts to saying that it is possible—and more, desirable—that groups form where these ideas will not only be cultivated, but reassured by those who have chosen them.
I would want these groups to take great care to harmonize what is just and nobly virile in their effort with what Beethoven called “the unique sign of superiority”: goodness.
That is, certainly, one of the most difficult tasks, but also one of the most attractive, that can suggest itself to the activity and passion or a group of young men or of one young man alone.
It is necessary that, from the first, they have a reason; and I see that reason clarified in this well-known phrase, spoken by William of Orange and Nassau, known as the Taciturn:
“It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.”
So must we despair?
No.
I said it at the beginning: anarchist ideas are a long patience.
Societies evolve and, as a result, they progress…
Despite themselves, almost always… but it is a fact that they evolve and progress…
So it happens that they assimilate—oh! carelessly, a little or a great deal, depending on the individuals or groups of men—anarchist ideas that they have taken for follies, whose propagators they have persecuted, irrationally and without comprehension.
I will not swear—alas!—that all the anarchist ideas will be realized, and realized fully, in a society of men.
But I say, and this here is my deep conviction, that those who work, struggle and suffer for these ideas will not waste their time, and that their work is good, beautiful, grand and necessary.
My good friend and teacher Anatole France taught that the effort of reasonable men—or of those who at least pride themselves on being such—only succeed, socially, in giving a real life to the utopias a few unsung sages.
Let my comrades of the Revue Anarchiste, who are older or younger than me, — do we ever know? — receive, by way of greeting, the wish that forms for them such a hope.
That they help to bring about the success, in time, of the noble utopias of which they are the guardians.
Georges Pioch
This series of posts will insure that these anarchists' works live on in living memory.
If only a few.
Don't lose hope now, dear reader.
We've made it this far.
At some point the ride gets easier.
Rule by force has had it's day.
When everybody sees the iron fist in the velvet glove we win.
We just have to survive its death throes.
There is a reason these facts are not in the modern curriculums.
Setting rewards to burn only burns the author portion of the payout.
The crowd isn't silenced.
Please cheer loudly, if that is your thing.