<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="firstHeading"><font size="6">Anarchy</font></h1>
                
                        <h3 id="siteSub">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3><font size="6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">Anarchism</a></font>
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<p><b>Anarchy</b> (from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">αναρχία</span> <i>anarchía</i>, &quot;without <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon#Ancient_Greece" title="Archon">ruler</a>&quot;) may refer to any of the following:</p>

<ul><li>&quot;Absence of government; a state of lawlessness due to the absence or inefficiency of the supreme power; political disorder.&quot;<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup></li>
<li>&quot;A theoretical social state in which there is no governing person
or body of persons, but each individual has absolute liberty (without
the implication of disorder).&quot;<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup></li><li>&quot;Absence or non-recognition of authority and order in any given sphere.&quot;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup></li>
<li>Without government or law</li></ul>
<p>A state, free from coercive authority of any kind, is the goal of proponents of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophy" title="Political philosophy">political philosophy</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">anarchism</a> (anarchists). Anarchy is distinct from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omniarchy" title="Omniarchy">omniarchy</a>, a chaotic situation in which all rule over all, in the sense that anyone can commit aggression against any other person.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup></p>
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