Imagine you are a person fighting in an anarchist revolt. You have captured a sizeable chunk of land but the front line has grown too large and you can’t progress further. The state that you have been fighting approaches you with an offer: They recognise you as a sovereign (however that would look like) entity but you have to give away most of the land you’ve captured. They will leave you with the primary city and enough surrounding land to feed everyone.
What would be your position? Would you be willing to make a deal with the state?
Make a deal with the state. Have a secret society blend in with them. For decades, plant enough traitors everywhere to destroy the state. Perform psyops so they all attack each other and then be the savior with your promise of anti-establishment freedom. Enable the traitors to destroy everything in the state so you can take power. If you’re truly evil, you can even make scapegoats out of those you find undesirable or easy to ignore to create a sense of furious unity and finaticism. Oh wait…