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anarchist

[an-er-kist] / ˈæn ər kɪst /
NOUN
person who opposes the idea of government and laws
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As Mikhail Bakunin, a 19th-century anarchist, observed, “it’s painful to live in Russia if you value the truth.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

However, in context, it is clear that Alter is criticizing a strain of anarchist activism in the United States.

From Salon Sep. 23, 2025

“I feel like if I raise those concerns, they want to put a tinfoil hat on me and they want to say I’m an anarchist or an insurrectionist,” Crye said.

From Seattle Times Feb. 29, 2024

Right, punk rock music was influential in bringing anarchist ideas to Brazil, but the beginning was pretty cynical.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 2023

Over the summer I read a biography of the anarchist Emma Goldman.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

He discovered a public more concerned with Progressive Era anti-monopoly reforms that Republicans cast as anti-business, a postwar economic slump, and acts of domestic terrorism committed by anarchists.

From Slate Mar. 10, 2026

Naturally, a lot of it was focused on immigrants, hundreds of whom were deported under suspicion of being anarchists.

From Salon Dec. 21, 2025

It wasn’t anarchists that ended the ’70s malaise.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 9, 2025

Found within a kilometre of the Danish parliament, Freetown Christiania was established in 1971 when a bunch of anarchists and hippies squatted inside a vacant military base.

From BBC Apr. 6, 2024

Aboard the vessel were Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, two of the most famous and influential of all the anarchists who had been charged with inciting revolution in America.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler




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