Anarchy is authoritarian, anarchists just don't know it.
I'm sorry, but you prove you have no idea about anarchism. The whole philosophical field of anarchism is based on power analysis, so it's quite the feat for you to prove such a wild claim.
Yes, some people have natural talents in In general, the thing you call "leadership": coordination or persuation of others. Or they have a talent in tactics and strategy. (Although people do like to have a say in the things your leaders decide - they just dislike the burden of responsibility)
But anarchists don't deny that fact. Quite the opposite: they aim for social structures where people with these talents can't accumulate structural hierarchies and monopolize decision making power.
Hate to be that guy, but you simply have no idea what you're talking about.
That's the entire reason so many people are attracted to fascism.
Umm...no. People are drawn to fascism, because they have a nationalistic worldview, where their nation is constructed for their benefit and their natiod is superior to other nations. That belief contradicts with a real-life lowering of living standard: "If the nation is there for my benefit and it should be at the top, why is my life still so miserable? Must be the weak people which sleazily spoil the true glory of our nation: the queers/transes/foreigners/Sinti/Roma/jews." Additionally, there's the belief that democracy wwakens the glory of the nation, so it needs a supreme leader which brings it back on track.
So, no: People not wanting to take "leadership" (or rather: responsibility) is **definetly not "the entire reason" why people are attracted to fascism. That makes historically absolutely no sense at all.
Leaders will emerge in your anarchist paradise, and people will follow.
I'm not talking about a utopia, but of strategies to achieve a more liberatory world. And these strategies prevent such monopolization of power.
Without liberalism as a check on their power, the very first crisis that comes along will turn anarchy directly into fascism.
What exactly do you mean by these words? I don't believe that you have a coherent definition of any of the terms "liberalism", "anarchy" and "fascism". And if yes: how is "liberalism" supposed to keep power in check. Last time I checked, liberalism guarantees the power of the powerful by guaranteeing private property and the continued accumulation of wealth.
For reference, I point to all the people in HOAs.
I'm not really too familiar with that concept, since I don't live in the US. But aren't these things more or less only liked by people who want to maintain/improve their property value and universally hated? Or at least universally hated if they're not democratically managed?
Even to get to anarchy in the first place is going to require authoritarianism.
sigh Please define what you mean with "authoritarianism", because we definetly don't agree on terms here. Authoritarianism (by my definition) is a social structure that tends to monopolize decision making power. That is contradictory to anarchism.
You don't make massive societal transformations without forcing it on people.
You don't keep the current societal order upright without forcing it on people. You're not talking about authoritarianism, you're talking about violence, i.e. the imposition of one's will over another. But violence will always exist. You're just morally justifying a cop's violence in favour of the status quo. Liberalism doesn't have a problem with people starving because they don't have any bread.
If I don't want to live in anarchy, how are you going to force me?
You can always chose to subjugate yourself. But if you want to enact nonconsensual subjugation on others, they have the right to self-defence.