But anarchists don't think that if you just "get rid" of the state, everything will magically fall into place. And anarchists don't just want to get rid of stat

But anarchists don't think that if you just "get rid" of the state, everything will magically fall into place. And anarchists don't just want to get rid of state: they want to get rid of capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy, heterosexism, and every form of systemic domination. Some see civilisation itself as a form of systemic domination. But most of us recognise that it's probably impossible to change all of that stuff, at least in our lifetimes. Does that make anarchism unrealistic/impossible/idealistic/whatever? Not at all. Because we recognise that there's not going to be a singular moment of history ("the revolution"), after which we'll live in an eternal anarchist utopia, anarchism in practice is about creating new (and/or influencing existing) institutions, communities and social movements towards structures and practices that are resistant to take-over, co-option and sabotage by the interests of power. This maximises their autonomy, which should hopefully allow them to serve their own interests instead of serving the interests of power (where "power" can be any form of systemic domination). This is an ongoing (never-ending) and imperfect process in which lessons are constantly being learned and relearned by everyone involved.[1] Anarchism as a theory (or theories) is the cumulative body of knowledge derived from people's (up until now, mostly failed) attempts at creating and sustaining anarchist institutions, communities and social movements. [1]: My original point was that I think there's such a lesson to be learned from the recent actions of Canonical/Ubuntu and that I hope the free software movement learns from this, even if it is generally not explicitly anarchist (though certainly anarchists are for free software (if they're for software at all, that is)).