What does the word Anarchy mean?

Answer 1

Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed is a North American anarchist magazine, and is one of the most popular anarchist publications in North America. It could be described as a general interest and critical, non-ideological anarchist journal. It has been based in Columbia, Missouri since its founding, but is currently being taken over by a collective based in Berkeley, California. Accepts no advertising

Answer 2

The word ANARCHY has two definitions :

1 A situation where nobody seems to pay attention to any rules or laws

2 A political belief that the laws and power of all governments and organizations should be replaced by people and groups working together freely.

Answer 3

Anarchy (Greek: αναρχία) is the anarchist society, the stateless society of free people. Anarchism is the name of a political philosophy, or a generic term for a group of more-or-less related political philosophies, derived from the Greek an-archos ("without archons" or "without rulers"). Thus, "anarchism," in its most general meaning, is the belief that all forms of rulership are oppressive and should be abolished.

Anarchists are those who believe that all people are imbued with a sort of commonality, common sense, that would allow for people to, in the absence of the government, come together in agreement to form a functional existence. Morality falls in line with functionality, and its forms differ. Anarchy does not reject ethics, or principles, but rather imposed morality.

The rise of anarchism as a philosophical movement occurred in the mid 18th century, with its notion of freedom as being based upon political and economic self-rule. It was a reaction to the rise of the nation-state and large-scale industrial capitalism, and the corruption that came with their successes.

Although anarchists are unified in the rejection of the state, they differ about economic arrangements and possible rules that would prevail in a stateless society, ranging from complete common ownership and distribution according to need, to supporters of private property and free market competition. For example, most forms of anarchism, such as that of anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, or anarcho-primitivism not only seek rejection of the state, but also other systems which they perceive as authoritarian, which includes capitalism, wage labor, and private property.

When used by non-anarchists, the word "anarchy" is often used as a pejorative; intended to connote a lack of control and a negatively chaotic environment. The association is so strong in mainstream society that some anarchists prefer the term, "anarchism." The question of forgoing the use of either term in favor of "libertarian socialist" (primarily during the late 19th century,) or the more modern, "anti-authoritarian," remains a topic of debate. The word "anarchy", as most anarchists use it, does not imply nihilism, anomie, or the total absence of rules, but rather an anti-authoritarian society that is based on voluntary association of free individuals in autonomous communities, operating on principles of mutual aid, voluntary association, and direct action.

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Answer 4

I think this wikipedia article says it best:

"Anarchy (Greek: αναρχία) is the anarchist society, the stateless society of free people. Anarchism is the name of a political philosophy, or a generic term for a group of more-or-less related political philosophies, derived from the Greek an-archos ("without archons" or "without rulers"). Thus, "anarchism," in its most general meaning, is the belief that all forms of rulership are oppressive and should be abolished."

Answer 5

an·ar·chy /ˈænərki/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[an-er-kee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a state of society without government or law.
2. political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control: The death of the king was followed by a year of anarchy.
3. a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society.
4. confusion; chaos; disorder: Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith.


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[Origin: 1530–40; (< MF anarchie or ML anarchia) < Gk, anarchía lawlessness, lit., lack of a leader, equiv. to ánarch(os) leaderless (an- an-1 + arch(ós) leader + -os adj. suffix) + -ia -y3]

Answer 6

Without Law,Lawless

Answer 7

Anarchy can mean many thighs.

But it is mainly associated this Bow and Arrow.

It is a magazine.

It is a Olympic sport.

...........See if you can come up with some other things.

Answer 8

Absence of governmental authority or law

Answer 9

Attrocities, disorder, chaos

Answer 10

no law, disorder...
there are also anarchists, who support anarchy.