This thread was made to discuss who our favorite leaders were. The problem with communal leadership is that it has the potential to break down relatively quickly and can weaken the state in the process. Philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Seneca tend to agree that not all people are perfect or capable of autonomy. Others like Hobbes portray men as vicious beasts whose passions must be contained by a mutual contract, the state.
Ours isn't the world of Kant, where everyone acts of (or should act of) duty alone. This world is the realm of deceit and violence, as a quick glimpse of history reveals.
This means that the collective cannot be trusted to govern itself adequately and justly. There must be potent leaders lest a state fail. The French Commune of 1871 and the Communes of the Spanish Civil War testify to this fact.
The thing with anarchists (that I know, at least) is the inability some possess to justify the lack of government in the face of the dangers presented by a lack of strong government.