AHC: Wank Anarchism

With a PoD After 1866 and the first congress of the IWA, or the First ainternational, have Anarchism become a major force on the political left, displacing other movements and wing at the forefront of revolutions.

Could Anarchism have even come to "govern" a country? Coul anarchists "control" parts of the world, much like Marxism-Leninism managed to carve out a place for itself and a sphereof influence? Could anarchism spread to overshadow Marxism? I'm guessing that any of the above would have to mean that anarchist trade unions would have to be much more powerful, so maybe anarchists control more of them, like CNT-FAI; I have little idea of how this would come to pass however.
 
You could wank the Makhnovists or maybe have the Paris Commune take on more aspects of classical anarchism.

The latter would be a good way to either get Marx later to take on anarchist viewpoints or just undercut the success of Marxism and its derivatives.

Also, there's like a million branches of anarchism, if one doesn't work others might.
 
Any particular type of anarchism?

I could see anarco-syndicalism being popular. Alternatively, anarchist self-sufficient communities.

Marxism is technically anarchist, though. It just didn't work out like that IOTL. If communism is less successful (i.e. no communist countries), then the more anarchist strains could be stronger.
 
With a PoD After 1866 and the first congress of the IWA, or the First ainternational, have Anarchism become a major force on the political left, displacing other movements and wing at the forefront of revolutions.

Could Anarchism have even come to "govern" a country? Coul anarchists "control" parts of the world, much like Marxism-Leninism managed to carve out a place for itself and a sphereof influence? Could anarchism spread to overshadow Marxism? I'm guessing that any of the above would have to mean that anarchist trade unions would have to be much more powerful, so maybe anarchists control more of them, like CNT-FAI; I have little idea of how this would come to pass however.
There had been an Anarchist scare from the late 19th Century until the early decadws of the 20th Century. In USSR Anarchist had been enemies of the state aswell. Maybe ATL Anarchists become an important faction before the Russian Revolution. Then the movement swaps to Western Europe during a more devasting WW2 . Maybe soldiers from different factions refuse to Fight and go Home under the black flag.
 
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