anarchist

(noun)

One who believes in or advocates the absence of hierarchy and authority in most forms (compare anarchism), especially one who works toward the realization of such.

Related Terms

Examples of anarchist in the following topics:

  • Functions of the State

    • Anarchists believe that the state is inherently an instrument of domination and repression, no matter who is in control of it.
    • Anarchists believe that the state apparatus should be completely dismantled and an alternative set of social relations created, which would be unrelated to state power.

  • The Law as an Instrument of Oppression

    • Anarchists and other libertarian socialists argue that police and laws themselves are oppression.

  • Peace

    • opposition to any organization of society through governmental force (anarchist or libertarian pacifism)

  • The Symbolic Nature of Culture

    • The way you dress could symbolically communicate to others that you care about academics or that you are a fan of your school's football team, or it might communicate that you have adopted an anarchist philosophy or are a fan of punk music.

  • The Death Penality

  • Participatory Democracy

    • A brief period where a region was governed almost totally by participatory democracy occurred during the Spanish civil war, from 1936-1938, in the parts of Spain controlled by anarchist Republicans.