anarchism

IPA: ænˈɑrkɪzʌm

A political and philosophical belief that all forms of involuntary rule or government are undesirable, unnecessary, or unethical, and as such that society would function without a state.
A belief that proposes the abolition of hierarchy and authority in most forms.

Examples of "anarchism" in Sentences

We are not using the term anarchism as shorthand for armed activities.
The term anarchism derives from the Greek anarchos, meaning "without rulers."
Then what you call anarchism would just be what I call libertarianism except that in
And the word anarchism has been so stripped of substance that it has come to be equated with chaos and nihilism.
But did these traditional anarchists actually agree with contemporary social anarchists’ interpretive claims about the meaning of the term anarchism, or the essential features of the anarchist tradition?
… 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.