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Anarchy: Anarchy Featured Political Meaning
Anarchy: Anarchy Featured Political Meaning
A state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority the
city's descent into anarchy
A societal state without government or law
Lack of obedience to authority
Anarnism, cluster of doctrines and attitudes centered on the beliefs that government is both
harmful and unnecessary.
Derived from the Greek root (anarchos) meaning " without authority " anarchism, anarchist and
anarchy are used to express both approval and disapproval.
Anarchy history
Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies often defined as self
governed voluntary institutions, but that severals authors have defined as more specific
institutions based on free associations.
While most people who hold anarchist beliefs prefer to create change through legal ; non-
violent, methods, there are those who believe change must come through violent act.