Comment by dmantis

Not the case at all. True anarchy is community governance where a very local group of people start working together. Anarchist meetings are not restricted to, but include, looking like a bunch of people in a room, voicing their problems with this week's chief speaker as moderator, and then everyone in the room splitting off into working groups to address each problem. The chief speakers rotate around the group each week to avoid moderator bias, and each working group might reach out to other anarchist groups to exchange information and resources freely.

This is but one model developed within academia for an entirely anarchist organisation, there are dozens of others and they have been both studied for efficacy (they tend to work better than a more hierarchical structure), as well as put into practice in real life within certain organisations. To this date there are a number of non-profit organisations and coöperatives that use this governance system to improve the situation where they are locally and achieve their goals — whether that's "everyone working to improve the local community" or "make good products for a client".

The entire point of anarchism is that there isn't One Big Guy, it's that it's people, deciding on a system and working together on a small scale — this then translates to the big scale through cross-group meetings, information sharing, and resource sharing. There is a lot of evidence within the social sciences to back these methodologies up as being very efficacious compared to traditional methods of group organisation, as well as being more democratic than traditional alternatives.

This additionally tends to be how some kinds of open mic nights work, as well as some kinds of modern speakeasys.