RE: Here We Go Again...

I think the only reason society functions at all is because anarchy works. Agriculture, manufacturing, retail, and myriad services are decentralized powerhouses using prices as an information network to direct action organically, while central planing always results in shortages and waste.

We know police are far from perfect when it comes to preventing or solving actual crimes, but a monopoly in police power has historically tended to exhibit abuse and waste. Courts are slow, often corrupt, and less aimed at restitution to the victim than arbitrary punishments.

We know that roads, postal service, firefighting, and other services typically associated with government have been, and are today, provided voluntarily. "Public works" are examples of Frederic Bastiat's broken window fallacy more than proof of governmental necessity.

We know that militarism abroad is only possible with a central state and tax-funded armed forces. However, an armed populace is a powerful deterrent to invasion, to say nothing of creative asymmetric warfare as exhibited in Ukraine. Additionally, if there is no king on the chess board, there is no option to checkmate.

If you want to read a more diverse set of anarchists than those you listed, try Karl Hess, Lysander Spooner, Linda and Morris Tannehill, Robert P. "Bob" Murphy, Murray Rothbard, Voltairine De Cleyre, Rose Wilder Lane (yes, Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter) and even Henry David Thoreau to a degree. The split between socialist/communist anarchism and individualist anarchism is old, and the former often deny the latter exist.