anarchism

English

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Etymology

From anarchy +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈanəkɪz(ə)m/

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• (General American) enPR: ʹănər'kĭzəm, IPA^(key): /ˈænəɹˌkɪzəm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæˌnɑɹˌkɪzəm/

Noun

anarchism (usually uncountable, plural anarchisms)

1. 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.
2. A belief that proposes the abolition of hierarchy and authority in most forms.

Derived terms

• anarchist
• anarcho-
• anti-anarchism
• cyberanarchism
• ecoanarchism
• postanarchism

 

Names of anarchist schools containing the word "anarchism"

• anarchism without adjectives
• black anarchism
• capitalist anarchism
• collectivist anarchism
• communist anarchism
• crypto-anarchism
• egoist anarchism
• existentialist anarchism
• green anarchism
• individualist anarchism
• insurrectionary anarchism
• left anarchism
• left-wing anarchism
• national-anarchism
• naturist anarchism
• philosophical anarchism
• post-anarchism
• postcolonial anarchism
• private property anarchism
• queer anarchism
• right anarchism
• social anarchism
• synthesis anarchism
• veganarchism

 

Related terms

• anarchy

Translations

belief that proposes the absence and abolition of government in all forms

• Afrikaans: anargisme
• Albanian: anarkizëm (sq) m
• Arabic: فَوْضَوِيَّة f (fawḍawiyya)
• Aragonese: anarquismo m
• Armenian: անարխիզմ (hy) (anarxizm)
• Asturian: anarquismu m
• Azerbaijani: anarxizm
• Bashkir: анархизм (anarxizm)
• Basque: anarkismo (eu)
• Belarusian: анархізм m (anarxizm)
• Bengali: নৈরাজ্যবাদ (nōirajjobad)
• Breton: anveliouriezh
• Bulgarian: анархизъм (bg) m (anarhizǎm)
• Burmese: မင်းမဲ့ဝါဒီ (mang:mai.wadi)
• Catalan: anarquisme (ca) m
• Chechen: анархизм (anarxizm)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 無政府主義／无政府主义 (mou⁴ zing³ fu² zyu² ji⁶)

  Hokkien: [script needed] (hui-thóng-tī-chú-gī)

  Mandarin: 無政府主義／无政府主义 (zh) (wúzhèngfǔzhǔyì)

• Chuvash: анархизм (anarh̬izm)
• Czech: anarchismus (cs) m
• Danish: anarkisme c
• Dutch: anarchisme (nl) m
• Esperanto: anarĥiismo (eo), anarkiismo (eo)
• Estonian: anarhism (et)
• Faroese: anarkisma f
• Finnish: anarkismi (fi)
• French: anarchisme (fr) m
• Galician: anarquismo (gl) m
• German: Anarchismus (de) m
• Greek: αναρχισμός (el) m (anarchismós)
• Gujarati: અશાસન (aśāsan)
• Hebrew: אנרכיזם (he) m (anarkhizm)
• Hindi: अराजकता (hi) ? (arājaktā), अराजकतावाद (arājaktāvād)
• Hungarian: anarchizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: stjórnleysisstefna f
• Indonesian: anarkisme (id)
• Interlingua: anarchismo
• Irish: ainrialachas m
• Italian: anarchismo (it) m
• Japanese: 無政府主義 (ja) (むせいふしゅぎ, museifu shugi)
• Javanese: anarkisme
• Kazakh: анархизм (anarxizm)
• Korean: 아나키즘 (ko) (anakijeum), 무정부주의 (mujeongbujuui)
• Kyrgyz: анархизм (ky) (anarhizm)
• Lao: ອະນາທິປະໄຕ (ʼa nā thi pa tai)
• Latvian: anarhisms ?
• Limburgish: anarchisme (li)
• Lithuanian: anarchizmas (lt) ?
• Luxembourgish: Anarchismus m
• Malay: anarkisme
• Malayalam: അരാജകത്വവാദം (arājakatvavādaṁ)
• Maltese: anarkiżmu
• Marathi: अराजकता (arājaktā)
• Mongolian: анархизм (mn) (anarxizm)
• Nepali: अराजकतावाद (arājaktāvād)
• Norman: anarchisme m
• Norwegian: anarkisme ?
• Occitan: anarquisme (oc) m
• Pashto: انارشيزم (ps)
• Persian: دولت‌زدائی, آنارشیسم (fa)
• Polish: anarchizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: anarquismo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਅਰਾਜਕਤਾਵਾਦ (pa) (arājkatāvād)
• Romanian: anarhism (ro) n
• Russian: анархи́зм (ru) m (anarxízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анархѝзам m

  Roman: anarhìzam (sh) m

• Slovak: anarchizmus m
• Slovene: anarhizem (sl) m
• Spanish: anarquismo (es) m
• Swedish: anarkism (sv) c
• Tagalog: anarkismo
• Tajik: беҳокимиятӣ (behokimiyatī)
• Tamil: அரசின்மை (ta) (araciṉmai)
• Tatar: анархизм (anarxizm)
• Thai: ลัทธิอนาธิปไตย (láttí ànaatíp-bpàdtai)
• Tibetan: གཞུང་མེད་ལམ་སྲོལ (gzhung med lam srol)
• Turkish: anarşizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: анархізм (uk) m (anarxizm)
• Urdu: نراج
• Uyghur: anarxizm
• Uzbek: anarxizm (uz)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa vô chính phủ
• Walloon: anårtchisse (wa)
• Welsh: anarchiaeth
• West Frisian: anargisme
• Yiddish: אַנאַרכיזם m (anarkhizm)
• Zhuang: fouzcwngfujcujyi

Further reading

• "anarchism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 37.

Anagrams

• chairmans