noun. The theory or doctrine that all forms of government are oppressive and undesirable and should be abolished.

noun. Active resistance and terrorism against the state, as used by some anarchists.

noun. Rejection of all forms of coercive control and authority.

noun. Confusion; disorder; anarchy.

noun. The doctrines of the anarchists; the anarchic and socialistic scheme of society proposed by Proudhon. See anarchy, 2.

noun. The doctrine or practice of anarchists.

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

noun. , 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).

noun. a political theory favoring the abolition of governments

"… 1. For the purposes of this essay, I will mostly be using the term anarchism as shorthand for individualist anarchism; since the defense of anarchism I will offer rests on individualist principles, it will not provide a cogent basis for communist, primitivist, or other non-individualist forms of anarchism."

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