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The etymological origin of anarchism is from the Ancient Greek anarkhia (ἀναρχία), meaning "without a ruler", composed of the prefix an- ("without") and the word arkhos ("leader" or "ruler").
Here a noun is defined as an adjective. How best to make it a noun? "Rulerlessness"? "the state of having no ruler"? —Tamfang (talk) 01:55, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
After having been an anarchist for 40 years, I personally think that the entire article on anarchism is rubbish. One example: I do not see myself as left-wing. That would mean that I would be part of their parliament. We are anti-political, so which idiot describes us as a left-wing political current? The article should have a short - extremely - general paragraph describing the general idea of anarchism and then it should sum up the different currents of anarchism as they are divided in internationals: individualists, anarcho-syndicalists, platformists. The articles on these currents should also be short and general and should just sum up the different versions of individualism etc. That way - at least - there would be a general definition that every anarchist could live with and it would keep all philosophical discussions to a minimum. Underneath every current, there could be further disambiguation until all currents are happy with the description of what they think anarchism should be. Jan De Neys (talk) 18:05, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well, unfortunately Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia based on reliable sources (in theory, anyways), not the self-opinions of the people being written about. Start a Fandom site or something. Yue🌙 07:13, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Previously this article's history section had two sentences covering the entire history of the anarchist movement in Russia and Ukraine during the revolution and civil war. Recently, a user has repeatedly added in information about a single (relatively minor) event in this history that I personally think gives undue weight to it.[1][2] As I don't want this to become an edit war, would anyone else here care to provide a third opinion on the matter? --Grnrchst (talk) 13:28, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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