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,[1] 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.
Yeah, methinks the joke slipped past… I know what anarchists tend to think anarchism means… what’s funny to me is that “words have meanings” — those s’s are significant there — implies either an appeal to an unspecified authority that an anarchist should be skeptical of, claim to being such an authority that any other anarchist should also be skeptical of, or deference to some vague majoritarian tyranny that any anarchist should reject out of hand.
Libertarianism of any stripe has this same bootstrap problem: if I’m not free to redefine words, then I’m not free.
