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Definition of Anarchism

1. Noun. A political theory favoring the abolition of governments.

Definition of Anarchism

1. n. The doctrine or practice of anarchists.

Definition of Anarchism

1. Noun. The belief that proposes the absence and abolition of hierarchy and authority in most forms. ¹

2. Noun. ''Specifically'', a political and philosophical belief that all forms of involuntary rule or government are undesirable or unnecessary, and that society could function without a ruler or involuntary government (a state). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anarchism

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Literary usage of Anarchism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"On the other side, Individualist anarchism found, also in Germany, ... The final conclusion of that sort of Individual anarchism has been indicated by Prof. ..."

2. Complete Life of William McKinley and Story of His Assassination: An by Marshall Everett (1901)
"anarchism AND ITS OBJECTS. Within a few minutes after the shooting of President McKinley ... What, then, is anarchism, and who are the anarchists that the ..."

3. The World's Legal Philosophies by Fritz Berolzheimer (1912)
"4: COMMUNISM, anarchism, AND SOCIALISM. Communism, which in the main was originated and developed in France, has traits in common with socialism and with ..."

4. The Anarchists, Their Faith and Their Record, Including Sidelights on the by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1911)
"THE ANARCHISTS THEIR FAITH AND THEIR RECORD CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION PRECURSORS AND THEORIES OF MODERN anarchism Traces of Anarchist Theories in Ancient ..."

5. A Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British ...by British Museum Dept. of Printed Books, George Knottesford Fortescue by British Museum Dept. of Printed Books, George Knottesford Fortescue (1891)
"anarchism AND NIHILISM—oont. MICHEL (L.) Prise de possession, pp. 32. ... PARSONS (AR) anarchism, pp. 200. pp. 200. ... Philosophy of anarchism, pp. 16. ..."

6. Violence and the Labor Movement by Robert Hunter (1914)
"CHAPTER X THE NEWEST anarchism AT the beginning of the nineties the socialists were jubilant. Their great victory in Germany and the enormous growth of the ..."

7. The Socialist Movement by James Ramsay MacDonald (1911)
"anarchism and Communism First of all I shall deal with the relation of Socialism as a system of political and economic thought to other systems with which ..."

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