[nietzreznor]

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But I think the concept of the market solving everything, where those prerequisites don't exist, is lol.

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I'm going to have to disagree, since part of why anarchism works so well is the inherent decentralization. So even in a place like the US anarchism would work, I think, because if people wanted to be in a small community with people of their 'kind' it would be pretty easy--small communities might be internally homogenous even if the entire 'country' were quite heterogenous.

Military isolation, while obviously beneficial, is I think also unnecessary since a) neighboring countries might be less likely to attack an anarchist 'country' since it would never provoke attacks, and b) an anarchist society would already be difficult to attack since all such attacks would take place in the anarchist society and the high level of decentralization would make capture far more difficult and far less appealing.

I don't think the idea is that the market must 'solve everything', as if all of life's problems magically disappear before the free market. But I think free markets, when combined with non-market methods (charities, mutual aid societies, unions, town militias, nonviolent resistance) can overcome many of the things you list as 'essential' for an anarchist society.