How can we be good enough for our own ideals and still win?

We want to do away with private ownership and authority, which is to say we are out to expropriate those who cling to the land and capital, and to overthrow government, and place society’s wealth at the disposal of everyone so that everyone may live as he pleases with no other restriction than those imposed by natural and social necessity, freely and voluntarily recognized and accepted. …

As a result, we are the foes of all privileged classes and all governments, and inimical to all who, albeit with the best of intentions, tend, by their endeavors, to sap the people’s revolutionary energy and substitute one government for another.

But what should we do to ensure that we are up to making our revolution, a revolution against all privilege and every authority and that we win?
—Errico Malatesta, “The Anarchists’ Task” (1899)

Is it comforting that this same discussion has been going on more than 120 years, and was tired even then?

Full text:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-the-anarchists-task

Audio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M2cBSt3BSw (now private)