This series of comments comes from this link and is how various authors answered the question:
Is the Anarchist Ideal Achievable?
Yes.
The Anarchist Ideal is achievable.
For more than forty years, I have been an anarchist.
I did not become one as the result of a sudden revelation, but slowly and after having crossed, step by step, the whole distance that separates the total slavery to which the catholic religion constrains its fanatics from the independence without limits that the Anarchist Ideal, only, grants its disciples.
I have honestly subjected my libertarian convictions to the proof of the events, since that time, already far off, have made an impression on social life; and, very far from weakening these convictions, my observations have not ceased to strengthen them.
We can boldly conclude that the Anarchist Ideal is, in my opinion, achievable; for if, by nature, I willingly yield to the attraction of the Ideal and if my heart feels itself that much more attract to it, as it appears more equitable, more fraternal, more noble and bearing more fecund promises, — and this is the case with the Anarchist Ideal, — my reason would prevent me and, age aiding, it would not fail to forbid me from working — now more than ever — for the triumph of an Ideal that appears to impossible.
Mine is neither a disturbed imagination, nor a fanciful mind and an effort that I consider useless does not interest me.
So my conviction is that the Anarchist Ideal is achievable.
I have an unshakeable certainty that the evolution of human societies will inevitably lead future generations there and that, thus, this Ideal will become a reality.
But do not ask me at what hour that realization of the Anarchist Ideal will strike on the dial of history.
I do not know that, any more than I could know at what age a young, vigorous and healthy man might die.
What I do know is that I can, without fear of being mistaken, affirm that it will die.
And I can affirm, with no more hesitation, that the regimes of Authority will pass away and that the coming of a social milieu based on liberty, an “anarchist” milieu, will succeed their disappearance.
For me, this coming is not a simple hope, a probability, but a certainty.
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I reckon that, from this day forward, man can live without authority.
It is obvious that, as a result of the centuries of servitude that weigh heavily on the man of the 20th century, the immediate establishment of a social milieu without constraint would necessarily give rise to numerous difficulties, and that the play of passions suddenly unbridled among individuals insufficiently prepared or totally uneducated will lead to unfortunate acts.
But these difficulties, much more easily overcome than the upholders of Authority like to say, — you will guess why — would not long resist the honest, serious and persistent effort of men of good will, having become the masters of their own destinies.
As for the acts of violence, excesses, misbehaviors and crime, for which the absence of all Authority will give the signal, I consider:
On the one hand, that the responsibility for these reprehensible acts will be imputable to the spirit of Authority, of which they are relics, and that, the cause being eliminated, the effect will not be slow to disappear;
On the other hand, that these acts of violence, excesses, misbehaviors and crimes will be far, very far from reaching the level of the savageries, iniquities and crimes for which Authority is accountable and for which the trial is concluded: credulity, poverty, ignorance, deceit, brutality, prostitution, jealousy, hatred, vengeance, war, rapine and brigandage of every sort.
Sébastien Faure
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.