The interesting history they don't teach in schools

[Hatshepsut]

In many countries, police don't carry guns, women are far more likely to serve in parliament, and the culture is much more egalitarian...There's nothing inevitable about authoritarianism, no immutable law of nature that tells us its impossible to reduce authoritarianism.

Any time someone can order someone else to do something or refrain from something, or take his stuff, or take his wife & kids, or take his life, it at least has a look and sniff of the authoritarian leather to me. Police go unarmed only in countries that restrict firearms. While Norway's 40% female parliament and Germany's new laws requiring women represent 30% of a company's management are admirable, women bosses can be authoritarian too; they often even seem that way to me sometimes, as if they're trying to prove themselves in a "man's" world: Just think of the Iron lady Margaret Thatcher.

There is a law of nature, or at least social life, involved: Not everyone will follow the program no matter what, and if you're going to have a set of rules all must live by, you'll have to enforce them. Enforcement is done by fallible people, not by moral robots who can keep their metal hands pure as they crush a live body to the ground. And if it's democracy we'll have, we'd better be prepared for fiascos such the Athenians embarked on with their Peloponnesian Wars. 

I'll agree with you that it is possible and desirable to reduce authoritarianism. Although I'm not sure how the Anarchists propose to do so. I'm aware there are numerous brands of anarchism, suggesting to me they don't know either. They've got the spirit now, especially while out of power, but politicians from electable parties will have to bake the cake.