This series of comments comes from this link and is how various authors answered the question:
Is the Anarchist Ideal Achievable?
Dear comrades,
I very willingly defer to the friendly invitation of the Revue Anarchiste, responding to the survey that it has initiated.
Is the anarchist ideal achievable?
Doubtless, in principle, it is achievable.
We can, in fact, absolutely conceive, without departing from practical likelihoods, that at a given moment, of each man becoming sufficiently conscious of his social, adapting his individual activity to it, by himself, of his own will, pushed by his own reason.
But, on the other hand, I think that we have still not yet reach that generalization of social consciousness, a generalization that demands a long work of preparation in the order of understanding as well as that of action.
The elements that must be possessed in order to adapt spontaneously, in the individual sphere, to the needs and desires of the collectivity, are still the prerogative of personalities intellectually and above all morally very superior to the average—personalities whose example can only be followed with a certain tardiness by the whole human ensemble.
That is why, while rendering tribute to the beauty of the anarchist ideal and willingly recognizing that it constitutes a particularly elevated stage of social accomplishment, I think that this theory is not presently viable.
It follows that those who take the initiative in disseminating it should never consider it except as a formula for which one can, in the present circumstances, only prepare the human masses, without attempting to realize it in a positive and concrete manner in contemporary society.
It must be noted, indeed, that this formula of a supreme simplicity, crowning achievement of the common life of the crowds of the earth, can only exist if it is unanimously accepted.
The absolute absence of constraint prohibits the possibility of scissions and exceptions in the social organism.
These, dear comrades, are my frank thoughts on the anarchist theory.
I offer this summary to you with fraternal best wishes.
Henri Barbusse
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.