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Anarchism

noun

A political theory favoring the abolition of governments.

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"Anarchism" Quotes from Famous Books

... sill. This was 'laisser-faire' with a vengeance! Such philosophy had always seemed to him to savor dangerously of anarchism. And yet twenty years' experience as a neighbor had shown him that Tod was in himself perhaps the most harmless person in Worcestershire, and held in a curious esteem by most of the people about. He was ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... the times—characteristic in subject and in utterance. To the intellectual and moral anarchism universally prevalent among the peoples of Western culture, which desires to have idealism outraged, sacred things ridiculed, high conceptions of beauty and duty dragged into the gutter, and ugliness, brutality, and ...

— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... who brought up a somewhat delicate question; how would such an institution as "Macintyre's Monthly" be run under Socialism? Thyrsis replied by quoting Kautsky's formula: "Communism in material production, Anarchism in intellectual". He showed how the state might print and bind and distribute, while men in "free associations" might edit and publish. But one could not get very far in this exposition, because of the excitement of ...

— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair

Words linked to "Anarchism" : political orientation, anarchistic, political theory, ideology