Imagine you are a person fighting in an anarchist revolt. You have captured a sizeable chunk of land but the front line has grown too large and you can’t progress further. The state that you have been fighting approaches you with an offer: They recognise you as a sovereign (however that would look like) entity but you have to give away most of the land you’ve captured. They will leave you with the primary city and enough surrounding land to feed everyone.
What would be your position? Would you be willing to make a deal with the state?
Kinda depends on the situation as always.
One aspect is obviously the civilians lives at hand. If we are speaking of a city, there’s people to protect from the war. But then, what about the people living in the territories that are to be given back ? Are they at risk of a high persecution ? Then maybe it’s worse a shot protecting them too. And even if not, will the states really hold back ? On a military basis at first, but also on an economic basis : won’t they try to create a blocus to end the separatism ? How many time do you think it will hold as is ? Multiple years is already a quite longer time than most anarchists uprisings, so if that’s somehow guaranteed, agreeing could be worth a shot.
Some deal would have to be done with some state at some point i guess, from a pragmatical point of view, every state won’t fall at the same time. So if it appears you can’t go further anyway, maybe it would be the right time.