anarchism

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Etymology

From anarchy +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

anarchism (usually uncountable, plural anarchisms)

1. The belief that proposes the absence and abolition of hierarchy and authority in most forms.
2. (specifically), a political and philosophical belief that all forms of involuntary rule or government are undesirable, unnecessary, or unethical, and that society could function without a ruler or involuntary government (a state).

Derived terms

• anarchist
• anarcho-

Names of anarchist schools containing the word "anarchism"

• black anarchism
• Christian anarchism
• collectivist anarchism
• egoist anarchism
• existentialist anarchism
• green anarchism
• individualist anarchism
• infoanarchism
• insurrectionary anarchism
• left anarchism

• National-Anarchism
• philosophical anarchism
• post-anarchism
• postcolonial anarchism
• queer anarchism
• social anarchism
• synthesis anarchism
• veganarchism
• anarchism without adjectives

Related terms

• anarchy

Translations

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

• Albanian: anarkizëm (sq)
• Arabic: فَوْضَوِيَّة‎‎ f (fawḍawiyya)
• Armenian: անարխիզմ (hy) (anarxizm)
• Asturian: anarquismu m
• Basque: anarkismo (eu)
• Bulgarian: анархизъм (bg) m (anarhizǎm)
• Catalan: anarquisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

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

• Czech: anarchismus (cs) m
• Danish: anarkisme
• Dutch: anarchisme (nl)
• Esperanto: anarĥiismo (eo), anarkiismo (eo)
• Estonian: anarhism (et)
• Finnish: anarkismi (fi)
• French: anarchisme (fr) m
• Galician: anarquismo (gl) m
• German: Anarchismus (de) m
• Greek: αναρχισμός (el) m (anarchismós)
• Hebrew: אנרכיזם‎‎ (he) m (anarkhizm)
• Hindi: अराजकता (hi) (arājakatā)
• Hungarian: anarchizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: stjórnleysisstefna
• Indonesian: anarkisme (id)
• Irish: ainrialachas m

• Italian: anarchismo (it) m
• Japanese: アナキズム (anākizumu), 無政府主義 (ja)
• Korean: 아나키즘 (anakijeum), 무정부주의 (mujeongbujuui)
• Latvian: anarhisms
• Lithuanian: anarchizmas (lt)
• Malay: anarkisme
• Norman: anarchisme m
• Norwegian: anarkisme
• Persian: دولت‌زدائی‎‎
• Polish: anarchizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: anarquismo (pt) m
• Romanian: anarhism (ro)
• 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)
• Thai: ลัทธิอนาธิปไตย (láttí ànaatíp-bpàdtai)
• Turkish: anarşizm (tr)
• Uyghur: anarxizm
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa vô chính phủ
• Yiddish: אַנאַרכיזם‎‎ m (anarkhizm)
• Zhuang: fouzcwngfujcujyi

Further reading

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

Anagrams

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