A combining form meaning anarchist or anarchism, used to create hybrid political ideology terms.
From anarch- (Greek an- without + arkhos ruler) used as a prefix; 20th-century creation to describe blended political movements.
'Anarcho-' became the Swiss Army knife of political terminology in the 1900s—anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarcho-capitalism—each adding a new ideology to the basic anarchist skeleton.
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