Comment by protocolture

>Somehow the anarchists never seem to expect people to use their newfound freedom to erect a new government in place of the old.

Theres so much anarchist writing on this exact topic lmao. It's even the core theme of Le Guin's Dispossessed, with the anarchists replacing a state with an internalised social hierarchy, even while worrying that certain elements of their organisation layer are going to become the government, they rebuild the government.

No anarchist I have ever met has ever thought that one day they turn the government off and thats the end of the job.