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I love that list of examples, because they're either not anarchist, or are very limited communes that function because of (and under the laws of) the larger democratic governments around them. Or they don't exist anymore
Yes, that's generally the caveat.
Anarchism works really well in groups where everyone knows everyone else personally, the community is protected from outside attacks by a non-anarchist superstructure, and everyone is free to leave if they don't like it.
You can have an anarchist commune, village or town, but not an anarchist nation-state surrounded by other nation-states.
I'd even claim that small homogeneous communities naturally gravitate towards anarchism (without outside force), but large communities naturally gravitate towards authoritarianism.
Democracy in its ideal form combines the two: A state with well-defined, legitimized, limited authority handling the big stuff, giving the maximum amount of freedom possible to local communities for handling their own stuff the way they want to.