So I went looking for how you might define the term outside of a pre-ordained order of society and found it somewhat comical that the M/W dictionary's first example came from the playbook of the poster child for fascism...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prefiguration

This chilling prefiguration of Hitler’s Final Solution is unmistakable, and Heidegger never explained, let alone apologized for, such horrendous statements. —Gregory Fried, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2014

A lot of people actually like authoritarianism. These people are known as morons.

I don't argue with the notion that virtually anything is better than we have now. I'd probably fall somewhere leftish but pretty neutral in the auth/lib scale. Basically to say having central authority enough to get things like big science, public infra, and foundational enforcement to the extent of ensuring people play by the agreed rules, but not the elite group dictation of them we have now. The idea of the self moderating and communal policing commune sounds nice, but unrealistic if you have anyone not following that path in or near the society.

Ah gotcha well if you are genuinely building new structures then you are not the type I’m talking about, so it’s possible my above statement was a mischaracterization. I’ve just run into some people whose plan for replacing the state/capitalism is basically:

Set fire to shit

???

Profit Anarchist utopia

And I just don’t think that has any chance of working whatsoever.

Anarchism means "no rulers" not "no rules".

And if the government collapsed, there would be a brief period where there are no recognized rulers. 🤦‍♂️