noun. Properly, one who advocates anarchy or the absence of government as a political ideal; a believer in an anarchic theory of society; especially, an adherent of the social theory of Proudhon. See anarchy, 2.

noun. In popular use, one who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government, all law and order, and all rights of property, with no purpose of establishing any other system of order in the place of that destroyed; especially, such a person when actuated by mere lust of plunder.

noun. Any person who promotes disorder or excites revolt against an established rule, law, or custom. See anarch and nihilist.

noun. An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

noun. One who believes in or advocates the absence of hierarchy and authority in most forms (compare anarchism), especially one who works toward the realization of such.

noun. One who disregards laws and social norms as a form of rebellion against authority.

noun. By extension from previous sense, one who promotes chaos and lawlessness; a nihilist.

noun. One who resents outside control or influence on his or her life, in particular a government, and therefore desires the absence of political control.

adjective. Relating to anarchism or to anarchists.

noun. an advocate of anarchism

"Tucker was famously strict in applying the term anarchist — he argued that professedly anti-statist communists such as Johann Most or the Haymarket martyrs were not in fact anarchists, but only governmentalists of a different stripe who had illegitimately appropriated the term from the proponents of individual property and free markets."

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