What is "anarchy"

Anarchy \An"arch*y\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. anarchie. See Anarch.]

1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.

   Spread anarchy and terror all around.
   --Cowper.

2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.

   There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their re?koning of years.
   --Fuller. [1913 Webster] ||

1530s, from French anarchie or directly from Medieval Latin anarchia, from Greek anarkhia "lack of a leader, the state of people without a government" (in Athens, used of the Year of Thirty Tyrants, 404 B.C., when there was no archon), noun of state from anarkhos "rulerless," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + arkhos "leader" (see archon).\n\nEither the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement. The choice lies with you!

[Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)]

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body. 2 (context uncountable English) anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organize by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature. 3 (context countable English) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government. 4 confusion in general; disorder.

n. a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) [syn: lawlessness]

In his pamphlet Anarchy , published in 1891, Errico Malatesta seeks to explain the fundamental tenets of, and provide a persuasive argument for, his version of anarchism. According to Worldcat, it has been published in fifty-five editions between 1892 and 2004 in eight languages and is held by 139 libraries worldwide.

Anarchy was an anarchist monthly magazine produced in London from March 1961 until December 1970. It was published by Freedom Press and edited by its founder, Colin Ward with cover art on many issues by Rufus Segar. The magazine included articles on anarchism and reflections on current events from an anarchist perspective, e.g. workers control, criminology, squatting.

The magazine had irregular contributions from writers such as Marie Louise Berneri Paul Goodman, George Woodcock Murray Bookchin, and Nicholas Walter.

A second series of Anarchy was published into the 1980s with an editorship that included Chris Broad and Phil Ruff.

Freedom Press later published A Decade of Anarchy 1961-1970: Selections from the Monthly Journal Anarchy which collected writing from the first series as edited by Colin Ward.

Anarchy is the fourth studio album by Busta Rhymes. The album was released on June 20, 2000, by Flipmode Records and Elektra Records. It comes after the release of The Coming, When Disaster Strikes and Extinction Level Event (Final World Front). Unlike these albums, Anarchy does not follow the apocalypse theme. The album debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 164,000 copies. The album would later be certified platinum by the RIAA. This was Busta's final album with Elektra Records.

"Anarchy" is a song from industrial rock band KMFDM's tenth album Symbols.

Anarchy is the sixth studio album by anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba. Many of the tracks address specific social issues, such as homophobia, strikes or fascism.

Its graphic cover, depicting a baby's head emerging from a vagina caused the record to be banned from some shops and stocked in plain sleeves in others. The iTunes version of the album replaces the baby picture with a painting of several flowers.

Anarchy is a society without a publicly enforced government.

Anarchy may also refer to:

Anarchy is the condition of a society, entity, group of people, or a single person that rejects illegitimate hierarchies. It originally meant leaderlessness, but in 1840, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon adopted the term in his treatise What Is Property? to refer to a new political philosophy, anarchism, which advocates stateless societies based on voluntary associations. In practical terms, anarchy can refer to the curtailment or abolition of traditional forms of government.

Anarchy is a side-scrolling shooter video game. It was released in 1990 for the Amiga and Atari ST.

In international relations theory, anarchy is the idea that the world lacks any supreme authority or sovereign. In an anarchic state, there is no hierarchically superior, coercive power that can resolve disputes, enforce law, or order the system of international politics. In international relations (IR), anarchy is widely accepted as the starting point for international relations theory

While some political scientists use the term " anarchy" to signify a world in chaos, in disorder, or in conflict, others view it simply as a reflection of the order of the international system: independent states with no central authority above them.

Anarchy provides foundations for realist, liberal, neorealist, and neoliberal paradigms of international relations. Constructivist theory disputes that anarchy is a fundamental condition of the international system.

The constructivist Alexander Wendt argued, " anarchy is what states make of it". That is to say, anarchy is not inherent in the international system in the way in which other schools of IR theory envision it, but rather it is a construct of the states in the system.

is the third studio album by the Japanese girl idol group Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku. The album was released on April 20, 2016 on the Sony Music Entertainment Japan's label SME Records.

The album was originally scheduled for release on February 10, but in December 2015 it was announced that group member Hinata Kashiwagi had been diagnosed with sudden deafness and that because of that the album was postponed.

Anarchy is the debut studio album by British singer and songwriter Neon Hitch. It was released on 22 July 2016 by her own record label, #WeRNeon.

The album was preceded by the lead single Please which was released as an instant grab along with the album pre-order on July 8th, the song is featured in an episode of Million Dollar Matchmaker along with Neon herself.

Anarchy was originally titled Eleutheromaniac which was first announced after Hitch's split from Warner Bros. in 2014. It was supposed to include the singles Yard Sale and Sparks which are not featured on the final version of the album.

The album was released on July 22nd and was met with critical acclaim from fans and blogs who praised Hitch's new sound and evolution since her early releases during her Warner Bros. days. The album includes a bonus track called Freedom which was released as a stand alone single on December 18th along with a remix EP on iTunes.

Rumours are reporting that Hitch is planning on releasing Neighborhood as the official second single from the album with a new dance remix in the coming months following the release of the official music video for Please.