Where did the original idea of anarchy come from?

Question

Who first wrote about it or what country first experienced it? If you can, recomend authers or poets. thanks.

Answer 1

The word "anarchist" was originally used as a term of abuse. It was adopted as a positive label by self-defined anarchists in the 19th century. William Godwin, in his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), was "the first to formulate the political and economical conceptions of anarchism, even though he did not give that name to the ideas developed in his remarkable work." [2] But at this point no anarchist movement yet existed, and the term "anarchiste" was known mainly as an insult hurled by the bourgeois Girondins at more radical elements in the French Revolution.

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Main article: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is regarded as the first self-proclaimed anarchist, a label which he adopted in his 1840 work What is Property?. It is for this reason that some claim Proudhon as the founder of modern anarchist theory.[3] He developed the theory of spontaneous order in society, where organization emerges without any central authority, a "positive anarchy" in which order arises from every individual "doing what he wishes and only what he wishes."[4] He saw anarchy as:

"a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law, is alone sufficient to maintain order and guarantee all liberties. In it, as a consequence, the institutions of the police, preventive and repressive methods, officialdom, taxation, etc., are reduced to a minimum. In it, more especially, the forms of monarchy and intensive centralization disappear, to be replaced by federal institutions and a pattern of life based on the commune."[5]

His opposition to capitalism, the state, and organised religion inspired subsequent anarchists, and made him one of the leading socialist thinkers of his time[4].

Answer 2

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), was "the first to formulate the political and economical conceptions of anarchism, even though he did not give that name to the ideas developed in his remarkable work."

Anarchy (book), L'anarchia, Errico Malatesta's 1891 pamphlet explaining his version of anarchism

Answer 3

I think some how, Anarchy is kinda bred into us. When we were like Neanderthals, we some sort of form of tribal thing, but it was every Man( or woman ) for him/herself. Im sure couples were together, but you get what I mean. And Im assuming this was way before they started to become organized, during Pre History.

Answer 4

Neek!