For, when you contrast what happened in the vanguardist regimes with the core principles of socialism, you can see how socialism is, in fact, incompatible with the desire to secure power for oneself or one's party. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. This is the key statement to explore, for if someone doesn't have a problem with the exploitation of man by man, they are in no way an anarchist. It simply isn't ideologically consistent, and, as radicals, we put much importance on this. The anarchist rejection of rulers stems from our opposition to exploitation.
Government exists to protect property.
That is the sole reason for its existence. If property rights were natural, they wouldn't need force to maintain them. That is why property exists. Workers are routinely and systematically exploited by capitalism. Which means that no worker is ever paid the full value of what they produce.