What does anarchist mean?

Definitions for anarchist
ˈæn ər kɪstan·ar·chist

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. anarchist, nihilist, syndicalistnoun

    an advocate of anarchism

Wiktionary

  1. anarchistnoun

    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.

  2. anarchistnoun

    One who disregards laws and social norms as a form of rebellion against authority.

  3. anarchistnoun

    By extension from previous sense, one who promotes chaos and lawlessness; a nihilist.

  4. anarchistnoun

    One who resents outside control or influence on his or her life, in particular a government, and therefore desires the absence of political control.

  5. anarchistadjective

    Relating to anarchism or to anarchists.

  6. Etymology: From anarchiste, from ἀναρχία from the roots ἀν- + ἀρχή.

Wikipedia

  1. anarchist

    Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessarily limited to, governments, nation states, and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies or other forms of free associations. As a historically left-wing movement, usually placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum, it is usually described alongside communalism and libertarian Marxism as the libertarian wing (libertarian socialism) of the socialist movement. Humans lived in societies without formal hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires. With the rise of organised hierarchical bodies, scepticism toward authority also rose. Although traces of anarchist thought are found throughout history, modern anarchism emerged from the Enlightenment. During the latter half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century, the anarchist movement flourished in most parts of the world and had a significant role in workers' struggles for emancipation. Various anarchist schools of thought formed during this period. Anarchists have taken part in several revolutions, most notably in the Paris Commune, the Russian Civil War and the Spanish Civil War, whose end marked the end of the classical era of anarchism. In the last decades of the 20th and into the 21st century, the anarchist movement has been resurgent once more, growing in popularity and influence within anti-capitalist, anti-war and anti-globalisation movements. Anarchism employs a diversity of tactics in order to meet its ideal ends which can be broadly separated into revolutionary and evolutionary tactics; there is significant overlap between the two, which are merely descriptive. Revolutionary tactics aim to bring down authority and state, having taken a violent turn in the past, while evolutionary tactics aim to prefigure what an anarchist society would be like. Anarchist thought, criticism, and praxis have played a part in diverse areas of human society.

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  1. anarchist

    An anarchist is a person who advocates for, believes in, or promotes anarchism, a political philosophy or ideology that rejects all forms of compulsory government and institutions, favoring a stateless society based on voluntary cooperation. Anarchists generally believe that government is both unnecessary and harmful, and they oppose any systems or structures of authority and control.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Anarchistnoun

    an anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government

  2. Etymology: [Cf. F. anarchiste.]

Wikidata

  1. Anarchist

    The Anarchist is a fictional character from Marvel Comics. He was a member of the superhero team X-Statix. The Anarchist first appeared in X-Force #116 and was created by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred. He could sweat acid, which allowed him to fire acidic blasts of energy from his hands. The Anarchist considered himself the "token black guy" of the team.

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. anarchist

    1. A Christian dilettante; one who casts a shadow on tomorrow while waiting for the Greek Kalends. 2. A mouther of sublime inanities. 3. One who maps and surveys the air and constructs dainty Utopias with the building-blocks quarried from his unbelievable credulity. 4. In the insane asylum of idealists, a man who imagines himself to be God. 5. A militant bourgeois who has deserted both Rome and Reason because he can not stand competition.

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  1. antiarchs

  2. anticrash

  3. cantharis

  4. Thracians

  5. archsaint

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of anarchist in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of anarchist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of anarchist in a Sentence

  1. Robert Hewison:

    Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

  2. Mark Levin:

    They have embraced Black Lives Matter, which is a Marxist anarchist, violent organization, and they're led by Marxists, they've been trashing police officers from sea to shining sea.

  3. Dan Schnur:

    If you decide to perform comedy for a living, you've probably got a little bit of an anarchist streak.

  4. Gregory Gillespie:

    That’s what I would hope they would do. Take it over. Take it over. Own it for a few days. I’m not an anarchist, but you can’t let stand what happened in this election.

  5. Spiro T. Agnew:

    Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

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