My argument:

What I gather from anarchism is largely let the people use societal structures to rule themselves. But what’s to prevent someone from naturally gaining influence in their community, then progressing that more and more into political control? An easy way to think of this is how gangs naturally form - they get massive and have influence on even the national level.

My political background:

I tend to be more authoritarian because authoritarian governments tend to have more politically motivated constituents (who demand the change they want), have stronger economies (which make them more powerful at the international level), and can (and sometimes do) use their powers to actually help the population.

Anyways, convince me anarchism would work at any scale above 100-200 people, and what that would look like. Cya in the comments!