What do you see as the greatest challenge following a successful revolution?

[u/bambucks]

Let’s say the revolution comes and anarchists succeed, overthrowing the bourgeoisie and abolishing the state. With that behind us, what are the biggest challenges (excluding defending against those that wish to sabotage)?

[u/Accomplished_Bag_897]

The idea that the revolution is some specific point that happens rather than is a constant pushing for a better and more egalitarian world is flawed I think. The world will never be perfect. There will never be a time we won't have to maintain vigilance against authoritarianism and the consolidation of power.

[u/MyEarIsHurty → u/Accomplished_Bag_897]

I like to think there will eventually come a time where any authoritarian attitudes are as taboo as Nazism and anybody who tries exercises them is punched on the spot

[u/Accomplished_Bag_897 → u/MyEarIsHurty]

Nazism is taboo? Have you seen the news? Don't know about where you live but the AFD is that in all but name. And the USA has reported like 3m folks plus killed countless others in concentration camps and in brown shirt raids.

Yes, but people are always willing to break taboos. That's why vigilance is a better strategy than looking for a point that won't happen "naturally". Hell, I know from my own personality that it's fun as hell to break rules just to prove the rule doesn't actually prevent anything without agreement to the rule.

[u/MyEarIsHurty → u/Accomplished_Bag_897]

I mean, it is pretty acceptable to punch Nazis, and Nazism is in fact taboo. It just also happens to have considerable power behind it. This isn't because of an omnipresence of authoritarianism, but because we live in an increasingly authoritarian society. 

[u/nenphei]

I think any revolutionary path that abolishes the state will face the trouble that there are militant leaders that people look up to and a structural vacuum that those leaders will end up plugging.

I think anarchist society will come from a deliberate, slow dissolution of the state, reaching a point where prefigurative society will have primacy and state institutions will be increasingly disempowered and irrelevant, meaning there is no vacuum.

[u/Last_Anarchist]

Mantenerla, sarebbe la parte più complicata. Vincere una rivoluzione, non è la fine, ma solo l'inizio. Quello che serve, è una istruzione continua da parte del popolo, sui valori anarchici. Evitando, o per lo meno, cercando di evitare il tradimento di quegli stessi valori, di cui abbiamo combattuto per averli

[u/The_Easter_Daedroth]

As a farmer, I have to say that organizing and performing food production and distribution will be a critical factor in any revolution, whether you conceive it as an event or an ongoing process.

[u/Umfriend]

What are your material goals post-revolution?

[u/choppingwater]

Dealing with the Marxist-Leninists who will be coming for us (again).

[u/Pastor_Dorimay]

Probably logistics. Getting food and water and electricity and all that stuff distributed whilst being bombardes by every empire from the outside. I really need to check out anarchy works by gelderloos again.