When you see 100 attempts, and all result in failure, and people keep promoting it, it kinda smells of self-destructive delusion.

Is it failure when the crapitalusts bomb women and children into submission, or something else?
https://listverse.com/2016/06/29/10-instances-of-anarchist-societies-that-actually-worked/

The majick pill in this instance is the rejection of rule by force.
As long as these people get to use violence to control those people because reasons, we get ruled by those most willing to kill to stay in power.
They will invent the reasons as they need them.

It's still back to building from the local to the federation rather than from the top down.
Theanarchistlibrary.org has most of the works of the last century and this one.
In very many languages, too.