Then yes, Socialist regimes are authoritarian and are doomed to fail due to centralized control.
Anarchists seized the opportunity in the midst of the Spanish Civil War to occupy territory in Catalonia and build worker cooperatives out of the skeletons of capitalist industry. This was a working example of anarcho-syndicalism for roughly three years, until the Nationalists defeated the CNT/anarchists. Similar events unfolded in Paris in 1871, but in a much shorter time period.
I don't know enough about Makhnovia and Manchuria. In the midst of the rise of the Bolshevik state, Nestor Makhno's army was able to occupy the Free Territory (in Ukraine), a population of 7 million, until the Soviets took them over after 3 years. For Manchuria, look up the Korean Anarchist Federation in Manchuria. They were ultimately usurped by imperial Japanese forces.
The Zapatista Rebel Army, while not anarchist, practices libertarian communistic principles of horizontal autonomy and mutual aid, and has in municipalities in Chiapas since 1994.