Anarchist thought on the state is a direct consequence of having no experience with a state that is honest and fair. Their only experience with states are capitalist states and so they wrongly conclude that any state must behave in an identical fashion. They aren’t wrong to be skeptical of the state given that it is a system built on coercion & domination but their proposed solution to simply abolish it immediately is naive and ineffectual. Makhno tried this in Ukraine and Trotsky crushed him without effort. If it hadn’t been the Bolsheviks it would’ve been somebody else. A stateless society cannot coexist with state societies; ergo a state must exist to safeguard the revolution until such time when it is no longer needed. Anarchists reject this reasoning and it’s why they keep failing. You can’t compete with state levels of power projection and organization without having a state. This is the explicit advantage of a state society: it can mobilize large numbers of people in a way that a stateless society simply cannot. This is why the U.S. abandoned the militia model for a standing army. It’s why feudal states, after centralizing, abandoned levies in favor of a standing army. It’s why Rome was able to conquer so much so quickly. It’s why the USSR lasted as long as it did and it’s why the PRC & DPRK still exist. It’s why the Zionist Entity is still around and why Iran hasn’t folded to U.S. aggression. Only a state can compete with another state.