Anarchy
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"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so [...]. --Pierre-Joseph Proudhon |
Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.
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Anarchy has more than one definition. Some use the term "anarchy" to refer to a society without a publicly enforced government. When used in this sense, anarchy may or may not be intended to imply political disorder or lawlessness within a society. Many anarchists complain with Anselme Bellegarrigue that "[v]ulgar error has taken 'anarchy' to be synonymous with 'civil war.'"
Most individuals who self-identify as anarchists use the term to imply a system of governance, mostly theoretical at a jurisdiction level. There are also other forms of anarchy that attempt to avoid the use of coercion, violence, force and authority, while still producing a productive and desirable society.
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Etymology
The word anarchy comes from the ancient Greek ἀναρχία, anarchia, from ἀν an, "not, without" + ἀρχός arkhos, "ruler", meaning "absence of a ruler", "without rulers").
Lists of ungoverned communities
Ungoverned communities
- Icelandic Commonwealth (930–1262 CE)
- The Diggers (17th century England)
- Libertatia (late 17th century)
- Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African social movement
- Anarchy in the United States
- Drop City, the first rural hippie commune
- Kibbutz, a community movement in Israel initially influenced by anarchist philosophy
Anarchist communities
Anarchists have been involved in a wide variety of communities. While there are only a few instances of mass society "anarchies" that have come about from explicitly anarchist revolutions, there are also examples of intentional communities founded by anarchists.
- Intentional communities
- Utopia, Ohio (1847)
- Whiteway Colony (1898)
- Life and Labor Commune (1921)
- Freetown Christiania (September 26, 1971)
- Trumbullplex (1993)
- Mass societies
- Free Territory (November 1918Template:Spaced ndash1921)
- Anarchist Catalonia (July 21, 1936Template:Spaced ndashMay 1937)
See also
See also
- Anarchism
- Chaos
- To be governed is
- Anarchic comedy film
- Anarchism and the arts
- Culture and Anarchy (1869) by Matthew Arnold
- "I know of no bomb other than the book" --Stéphane Mallarmé
