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the political theory most people confuse with throwing chairs through windows.
means A state of society without government or central authority — either the chaos that follows when order collapses, or the political ideal of a free society organized without rulers.
from From Greek anarkhia, 'absence of a leader,' built from an- ('without') plus arkhos ('ruler') — the same arkhos that gives us monarch (one ruler) and hierarchy. It passed through Medieval Latin into English, where it long meant simple lawlessness; only later did 19th-century political thinkers reclaim it as the name for a deliberate philosophy of self-rule without the state.
- root word
- Greek anarkhia: simply without a ruler
- first claimer
- Proudhon proudly called himself an anarchist in 1840
- not chaos
- thinkers argue it means voluntary order, not disorder
- symbol math
- the circle-A means anarchy equals order
- casualty list
- anarchists assassinated six heads of state by 1901
paris commune — workers' uprising that governed paris for 72 days in 1871 with horizontal decision-making
rojava — autonomous region in northern syria since 2012 practicing democratic confederalism without a state
zapatista communities — chiapas, mexico since 1994: indigenous municipalities governing themselves without hierarchical authority