Godwin wanted the state to wither away, but gradually, and not before the progress of enlightenment prepared people to do without it. Which seems to legitimate really existing statism and culminate in the banality that if things were different they would not be the same. Certainly no historian would regard as anything but ludicrous Kropotkin's claim that medieval cities were anarchist. The One Big Union of the syndicalists, who also uphold the duty to work, is one big state to everybody else, and totalitarian to boot. Anarchists are at odds over work, industrialism, unionism, urbanism, science, sexual freedom, religion and much more which is more important, especially when taken together, than anything that unites them.
Nobody cares to host the next one, although some regional gatherings have gone off fairly well.
Anarchist or, better, anarchistic marginals have often known what to take and what to leave. We are social parasites, mystics, kiddy-diddlers and just generally amoral savages. Yeah, but they are college boys in designer hardhats. The anarchists . . . can't live with them, can't live without them. As I once informed Demolition Derby , anarchists may make lousy comrades but they're excellent customers.