A political ideology and movement advocating the elimination of all forms of government and organized authority, replaced by voluntary cooperation.
From anarch + -ism suffix; 19th-century coinage during European revolutionary movements, combining Greek roots with -ism denoting philosophy or practice.
Anarchism has been vastly misunderstood for over a century—most anarchists aren't bomb-throwing chaos agents but philosophers arguing that humans can cooperate without rulers, similar to how open-source software communities actually function today.
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