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They're literally synonyms. From Merriam-Webster: > anarchy - a state in which there is widespread wrongdoing and disregard for rules and authority If the pol
by Wohlf 4y ago
They're literally synonyms. From Merriam-Webster:
> anarchy - a state in which there is widespread wrongdoing and disregard for rules and authority
If the political ideology doesn't want to be conflated with this it needs a new name.
It sucks but language is descriptive not prescriptive, and meanings change over time.
- AndyNemmity 4y agoIt meant "without ruler" when it was chosen. It was demonized after the fact.
- whatshisface 4y agoThe idea that the absence of a ruler meant total chaos goes back at least to Hobbes.
- yellowapple 4y agoIf I was Calvin's pet tiger I'd probably come to a similar conclusion.
- lynnk 4y agoIt's the other way around. Historically "anarchy" almost always had negative connotations. Then Proudhon co-opted the term to use it in a positive sense.
- mandelbrotwurst 4y agoDictionaries are neither objectively descriptive nor apolitical - their definitions reflect the biases of their authors and the systems they exist within which allowed them to obtain positions of relative authority.