May I ask what it is that draws you toward anarchist approach vs. alternatives?

I wonder because there are some in these kind of spaces who at least toyed with anarchist-like views at some point in their political evolution, but came around to recognizing the value that “socialism under siege” has produced (countries like CPC China, the DPRK, Cuba, etc.), as well as the necessity of their power structures for standing up for themselves against the violence of imperialism. Anarchism can seem more appealing, at least in the abstract, if your only experience with a “state” is imperialism and capitalism; but it also struggles to accomplish anything under the weight of that same imperialism. Sometimes it’s hard for people to decouple the nature of the state under empire/capitalism from the nature of the state as a more general means of large scale organizing and logistics.