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What's unclear is whether shrinking everything to state control actually improves matters.

Possibly concentrating all the power worsens the situation.

Anarchism implies no state control.

Dictatorships, monarchies, oligarchies, and corrupt politicians worsen situations. Putting power back into the hands of the community and it’s workers shouldn’t do that.

Some people have a hole in their brain that makes anarchism invisible to them. The only way they can respond to a critique of authority is to ask "have you considered the benefits of this other authority?"

You say "benefits", I say "inevitability".

Neither Communism and anarchism seem to model well the requirement for a management layer, or its effects.

These negatives are only transparent in capitalism, somehow.

QED

I don't think that's what critics of anarchism are thinking. They just believe that anarchism is a metastable state (with a very short half-life) that inevitably reverts back to either a strong central authority or multiple vying strongmen making & enforcing claims on various regions.

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