Ep. 64 Is Anarchism progressive or reactionary? Is the state inevitable w/Keith Preston?

The mindcrime liberty show discusses the topic of anarchism and whether its a progressive (ie progress oriented ideology in the  Alasdair MacIntyre framework) or is a reactionary, bleak or tragic one?  Why have there been so many failures in the grand sense in the past 70 or so years ranging from various wars to create liberal states in eastern Europe and the middle east to the failure of almost all major ideological projects on grand terms?  Does anyone actually have a plan on the left or the right which can work or are we all Francis "Fukuyamists" or "Pinkerites" now? Do anarchists of  left, right and individualists stripes believe that modernity and industrialization has been worth the cost. Did the state create modernity?  Did the enlightenment or modernity grow the state and state power?  Were people more free in the past then they are in late "capitalist" industrialized "statist" mass democratic societies? Is Stephen Pinker and Francis Fukuyama  right and that liberal democracy has brought about the end of history?  If that is the case why is there so much unrest and does the unrest translate into any actual plan other then catharsis?  Are anarchists the only ideology left standing and what does that anarchism actually entail?  If anarchists goal is to abolish the state why hasn't the state been abolished and what are the chances that it actually gets abolished?  Is this a 2000 year plus problem that dates back to Babylon?  What would the character of a post state society look like?  Progressive or reactionary of some variety?