Glossary of anarchism

The following is a list of terms specific to anarchists. Anarchism is a political and social movement which advocates voluntary association in opposition to authoritarianism and hierarchy.

Acracy
Adhocracy
Affinity group
Anarch
Anarchism without adjectives
Anarchy
Anomie
Ansoc
Anti-systemic library
Autonomism
Archon

Biennio rosso
Black anarchism
Black bloc
Bourse du Travail

Consensus decision-making
Cost the limit of price
Counter-economics

…When a revolutionary situation develops, counter-institutions have the potential of functioning as a real alternative to the existing structure and reliance on them becomes as normal as reliance on the old authoritarian institutions. This is when counter-institutions constitute dual power.

Dual power is a state of affairs in which people have created institutions that fulfill all the useful functions formerly provided by the state. The creation of a general state of dual power is a necessary requirement for a successful revolution…

Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation New York Local Member Handbook; June, 1997.^[15]

Dispute resolution organization (DRO)
Diversity of tactics: A united front of solidarity between participants who disagree on specific choice of tactics. For instance, during a protest action, demonstrators can create zones with varying degrees of tactical risk, rather than imposing a single code.^[17]
Dual power
Dumpster diving

Epistemological anarchism

Food rescue
Free school
Free soviets
Freeganism
Freigeld

Give-away shop
Guerrilla gardening

Haymarket Martyrs
Haymarket Tragedy
Hierarchy
Horizontalidad (also Horizontalism)

Illegalism
Immediatism
Individual reclamation (reprise individuelle): A form of direct action that advocates for criminal acts in service of a cause. Influenced by Bolshevik theory.^[30]
Infoshop
Invisible dictatorship

Jurisdictional arbitrage

Kabouters

Land and liberty
Law of equal liberty
Lifestylism: Anarchists who prioritize cultural and identity protest over class struggle politics. Associated with Murray Bookchin's 1995 essay in pejorative reference to anarcho-primitivists, poststructural anarchists, and individualists/egoists.^[36]
Lois scélérates

Makhnovshchina
Modern School
Mutual aid

Netwar

Panarchy (political philosophy)
Participatory politics
Polycentric law
Popular assembly
Post-left
Prefigurative politics
Primitivist
Propaganda of the deed
Property is theft!
Provo
Punk house

Radical cheerleading
Really Really Free Market
Refusal of work
Responsible autonomy
Revolutionary spontaneity
Rewilding
Reprise individuelle

Samizdat—the production of literature banned by the former communist governments of eastern Europe; the term is a play on the term for the Soviet state press, and translates to "self-publishing." Throughout the greater part of the twentieth century, the best literature, philosophy, and history in the Soviet Union and its satellite states was copied by photo-reproduction and distributed through underground channels—just as it is here in the United States today.

Rolling Thunder, Issue 4^[40]

Seasteading
Security culture
Social center
Social ecology
Social hierarchy
Social revolution
Somatherapy
Spokescouncil
Spontaneous order
Street reclamation
Swaraj

TANSTAAFL
Tragic Week
Trial of the thirty

Veganarchism
Voluntarism
Voluntaryism

Wage slavery
Workers' self-management

Zenarchy
Zine
Zine library

List of basic anarchism topics

[1]
Alvesson, Mats (1995). Management of Knowledge-Intensive Companies. Walter De Gruyter Inc. p. 93. ISBN 978-3110128659.
[2]
Recipes for Disaster, p.28-31
[3]
Warrior, Waldgänger, Anarch: An essay on Ernst Jünger's concept of the sovereign individual Archived 2008-06-09 at the Wayback Machine by Abdalbarr Braun. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
[4]
Esenwein, George Richard "Anarchist Ideology and the Working Class Movement in Spain, 1868–1898" [p. 135]
[5]
Anarchy Merriam-Webster's Online dictionary
[6]
Macdonald, Hamish (1998). Mussolini and Italian Fascism. Trans-Atlantic Publications. p. 17. ISBN 978-0748733866.
[7]
Daquan, Bridger (2007). Delusion Addiction. Trafford Publishing. p. 118. ISBN 978-1425117696.
[8]
"Blocs, Black and Otherwise". Crimethinc.com. CrimethInc. 20 November 2003. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
[9]
ACME Collective, A communique from one section of the black bloc of N30 in Seattle.
[10]
Ogg, Frederic Austin (1917). Economic development of modern Europe. New York: The Macmillan company. p. 464. OCLC 603770.
[11]
Cohn, Jesse (2006). Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation. Selinsgrove Pa.: Susquehanna University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-1575911052.
[12]
Graeber, David (2007). "The Twilight of Vanguardism". In Macphee, Josh (ed.). Realizing the Impossible. Stirling: AK Press. ISBN 978-1904859321.
[13]
Antliff, Allan (2004). Only a Beginning. Arsenal Pulp Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-1551521671.
[14]
Tucker, Benjamin R., "State Socialism and Anarchism Archived 1999-01-17 at the Wayback Machine", Individual Liberty, Vanguard Press, New York, 1926
[15]
Jarach, Lawrence (Winter 2002–2003). "Anarcho-Communists, Platformism, and Dual Power: Innovation or Travesty?". Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed (54). Retrieved 2008-08-02.
[16]
Molyneux, Stefan (October 24, 2005). "The Stateless Society". LewRockwell.com. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
[17]
Starr, Amory (May 2006). "' (Excepting Barricades Erected to Prevent Us from Peacefully Assembling)': So-called 'Violence' in the Global North Alterglobalization Movement". Social Movement Studies. 5 (1): 61–81. doi:10.1080/14742830600621233. ISSN 1474-2837. S2CID 146798880.
[18]
Dubrawsky, Ido (2007). How to Cheat at Securing Your Network. Syngress. p. 50. ISBN 978-1597492317.
[19]
Feyerabend, Paul (1993). Against Method. London: Verso. ISBN 9780860916468.
[20]
Levinson, David, ed. (2004). Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Thousand Oaks. p. 286. ISBN 978-0761927518.
[21]
Graziosi, Andrea (1996). The Great Soviet Peasant War: Bolsheviks and Peasants, 1917–1933. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-916458-83-6. OCLC 40684852.
[22]
Kurutz, Steven (June 21, 2007). "Not Buying It". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-06-21. the small but growing subculture of anticonsumerists who call themselves freegans — the term derives from vegans, the vegetarians who forsake all animal products, as many freegans also do
[23]
Zweig, Ferdynand (1934). The Economics of Consumers' Credit. London: P. S. King & Son. p. 7. OCLC 5358381.
[24]
Logs : micro-fondements d'émancipation sociale et artistique. Maisons-Alfort, France : Ére, [2005- ]. ISBN 2-915453-04-7 OCLC 60370621 p.20
[25]
Notes from Nowhere (2003). We Are Everywhere. London: Verso. p. 150. ISBN 978-1859844472.
[26]
Foner, Philip S., ed. (1969). The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs. New York: Pathfinder Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0873488792.
[27]
Sitrin, Marina (2006). Horizontalism. Stirling: AK Press. ISBN 978-1904859581.
[28]
Parry, Richard (1987). "From illegality to illegalism". The Bonnot Gang. London: Rebel Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0946061044.
[29]
Bey, Hakim (1994). Immediatism. AK Press. ISBN 978-1873176429.
[30]
Armstrong-Myers, Katy (1989). "Review of THE BONNOT GANG". Socialist Lawyer (9): 20. ISSN 0954-3635. JSTOR 42950027.
[31]
Filippo, Roy (2003). A New World in Our Hearts. Stirling: AK Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-1902593616.
[32]
Curran, James (2003). Contesting Media Power. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 57. ISBN 978-0742523852.
[33]
Clark, John P. (2004). Anarchy, Geography, Modernity. Lexington: Lexington Books. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-0739108055.
[34]
Williams, P. (2001). "Transnational Criminal Networks" (PDF). Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
[35]
Woodcock, George (2004). Anarchism: a History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements. Peterborough: Broadview Press. p. 371. ISBN 978-1551116297.
[36]
Morris, Brian (2014). "The Political Legacy of Murray Bookchin". Anthropology, Ecology, and Anarchism: A Brian Morris Reader. PM Press. pp. 169–170. ISBN 978-1-60486-986-6.
[37]
Brennan, Elizabeth (1998). Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Phoenix: Oryx Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-1573561112.
[38]
Arquilla, J.; Ronfeldt, D. (1996). The Advent of Netwar. RAND Corporation. ISBN 978-0833024145.
[39]
Recipes for Disaster, p. 241
[40]
"Glossary of Terms, part IV". Rolling Thunder (4): 6–8. Spring 2007.
[41]
Friedman, Patri (14 April 2008). "A Brief Introduction to the Seasteading Institute". Seasteading.org. Seasteading Institute. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
[42]
Starr, Amory; Fernandez, Luis A.; Scholl, Christian (2011). Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era. NYU Press. pp. 114, 142. ISBN 9780814741009. Retrieved 4 May 2019.; Anonymous (2005). Recipes for Disaster. Crimethinc.Workers Collective. p. 461. ISBN 978-0970910141.
[43]
Stover, Leon (1987). Robert A. Heinlein. Boston: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 978-0805775099.
[44]
Bookchin, Murray (1997). The Spanish Anarchists. Stirling: AK Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-1873176047.
[45]
Jean Maitron, Le mouvement anarchiste en France, Tel Gallimard (first ed. François Maspero, 1975), tome I, chapter VI, "Le Procès des Trente. Fin d'une époque", pp.251-261
[46]
"Voluntarism". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. Archived from the original on 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
[47]
Malachowski, Alan (2001). Business Ethics. New York: Routledge. pp. 98–99. ISBN 978-0415184625.
[48]
Taras, Ray (1984). Ideology in a Socialist State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 89–92. ISBN 978-0521262712.
[49]
Gorightly, Adam (2003). The Prankster and the Conspiracy. Paraview Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-1931044660.

[1] [1]
Alvesson, Mats (1995). Management of Knowledge-Intensive Companies. Walter De Gruyter Inc. p. 93. ISBN 978-3110128659.

[2] [2]
Recipes for Disaster, p.28-31

[3] [3]
Warrior, Waldgänger, Anarch: An essay on Ernst Jünger's concept of the sovereign individual Archived 2008-06-09 at the Wayback Machine by Abdalbarr Braun. Retrieved 22 December 2007.

[4] [4]
Esenwein, George Richard "Anarchist Ideology and the Working Class Movement in Spain, 1868–1898" [p. 135]

[5] [5]
Anarchy Merriam-Webster's Online dictionary

[6] [6]
Macdonald, Hamish (1998). Mussolini and Italian Fascism. Trans-Atlantic Publications. p. 17. ISBN 978-0748733866.

[7] [7]
Daquan, Bridger (2007). Delusion Addiction. Trafford Publishing. p. 118. ISBN 978-1425117696.

[8] [8]
"Blocs, Black and Otherwise". Crimethinc.com. CrimethInc. 20 November 2003. Retrieved 2008-08-05.

[9] [9]
ACME Collective, A communique from one section of the black bloc of N30 in Seattle.

[10] [10]
Ogg, Frederic Austin (1917). Economic development of modern Europe. New York: The Macmillan company. p. 464. OCLC 603770.

[11] [11]
Cohn, Jesse (2006). Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation. Selinsgrove Pa.: Susquehanna University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-1575911052.

[12] [12]
Graeber, David (2007). "The Twilight of Vanguardism". In Macphee, Josh (ed.). Realizing the Impossible. Stirling: AK Press. ISBN 978-1904859321.

[13] [13]
Antliff, Allan (2004). Only a Beginning. Arsenal Pulp Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-1551521671.

[14] [14]
Tucker, Benjamin R., "State Socialism and Anarchism Archived 1999-01-17 at the Wayback Machine", Individual Liberty, Vanguard Press, New York, 1926

[lj-15] [15]
Jarach, Lawrence (Winter 2002–2003). "Anarcho-Communists, Platformism, and Dual Power: Innovation or Travesty?". Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed (54). Retrieved 2008-08-02.

[16] [16]
Molyneux, Stefan (October 24, 2005). "The Stateless Society". LewRockwell.com. Retrieved 2008-08-02.

[17] [17]
Starr, Amory (May 2006). "' (Excepting Barricades Erected to Prevent Us from Peacefully Assembling)': So-called 'Violence' in the Global North Alterglobalization Movement". Social Movement Studies. 5 (1): 61–81. doi:10.1080/14742830600621233. ISSN 1474-2837. S2CID 146798880.

[18] [18]
Dubrawsky, Ido (2007). How to Cheat at Securing Your Network. Syngress. p. 50. ISBN 978-1597492317.

[19] [19]
Feyerabend, Paul (1993). Against Method. London: Verso. ISBN 9780860916468.

[20] [20]
Levinson, David, ed. (2004). Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Thousand Oaks. p. 286. ISBN 978-0761927518.

[21] [21]
Graziosi, Andrea (1996). The Great Soviet Peasant War: Bolsheviks and Peasants, 1917–1933. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-916458-83-6. OCLC 40684852.

[22] [22]
Kurutz, Steven (June 21, 2007). "Not Buying It". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-06-21. the small but growing subculture of anticonsumerists who call themselves freegans — the term derives from vegans, the vegetarians who forsake all animal products, as many freegans also do

[23] [23]
Zweig, Ferdynand (1934). The Economics of Consumers' Credit. London: P. S. King & Son. p. 7. OCLC 5358381.

[24] [24]
Logs : micro-fondements d'émancipation sociale et artistique. Maisons-Alfort, France : Ére, [2005- ]. ISBN 2-915453-04-7 OCLC 60370621 p.20

[25] [25]
Notes from Nowhere (2003). We Are Everywhere. London: Verso. p. 150. ISBN 978-1859844472.

[26] [26]
Foner, Philip S., ed. (1969). The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs. New York: Pathfinder Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0873488792.

[27] [27]
Sitrin, Marina (2006). Horizontalism. Stirling: AK Press. ISBN 978-1904859581.

[rp-28] [28]
Parry, Richard (1987). "From illegality to illegalism". The Bonnot Gang. London: Rebel Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0946061044.

[29] [29]
Bey, Hakim (1994). Immediatism. AK Press. ISBN 978-1873176429.

[30] [30]
Armstrong-Myers, Katy (1989). "Review of THE BONNOT GANG". Socialist Lawyer (9): 20. ISSN 0954-3635. JSTOR 42950027.

[31] [31]
Filippo, Roy (2003). A New World in Our Hearts. Stirling: AK Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-1902593616.

[32] [32]
Curran, James (2003). Contesting Media Power. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 57. ISBN 978-0742523852.

[33] [33]
Clark, John P. (2004). Anarchy, Geography, Modernity. Lexington: Lexington Books. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-0739108055.

[Williams2001-34] [34]
Williams, P. (2001). "Transnational Criminal Networks" (PDF). Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy. Retrieved 2008-06-23.

[35] [35]
Woodcock, George (2004). Anarchism: a History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements. Peterborough: Broadview Press. p. 371. ISBN 978-1551116297.

[36] [36]
Morris, Brian (2014). "The Political Legacy of Murray Bookchin". Anthropology, Ecology, and Anarchism: A Brian Morris Reader. PM Press. pp. 169–170. ISBN 978-1-60486-986-6.

[37] [37]
Brennan, Elizabeth (1998). Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Phoenix: Oryx Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-1573561112.

[Arquilla1996-38] [38]
Arquilla, J.; Ronfeldt, D. (1996). The Advent of Netwar. RAND Corporation. ISBN 978-0833024145.

[39] [39]
Recipes for Disaster, p. 241

[rt4-40] [40]
"Glossary of Terms, part IV". Rolling Thunder (4): 6–8. Spring 2007.

[41] [41]
Friedman, Patri (14 April 2008). "A Brief Introduction to the Seasteading Institute". Seasteading.org. Seasteading Institute. Retrieved 2008-06-23.

[42] [42]
Starr, Amory; Fernandez, Luis A.; Scholl, Christian (2011). Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era. NYU Press. pp. 114, 142. ISBN 9780814741009. Retrieved 4 May 2019.; Anonymous (2005). Recipes for Disaster. Crimethinc.Workers Collective. p. 461. ISBN 978-0970910141.

[43] [43]
Stover, Leon (1987). Robert A. Heinlein. Boston: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 978-0805775099.

[44] [44]
Bookchin, Murray (1997). The Spanish Anarchists. Stirling: AK Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-1873176047.

[45] [45]
Jean Maitron, Le mouvement anarchiste en France, Tel Gallimard (first ed. François Maspero, 1975), tome I, chapter VI, "Le Procès des Trente. Fin d'une époque", pp.251-261

[46] [46]
"Voluntarism". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. Archived from the original on 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2008-09-18.

[47] [47]
Malachowski, Alan (2001). Business Ethics. New York: Routledge. pp. 98–99. ISBN 978-0415184625.

[48] [48]
Taras, Ray (1984). Ideology in a Socialist State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 89–92. ISBN 978-0521262712.

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Gorightly, Adam (2003). The Prankster and the Conspiracy. Paraview Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-1931044660.

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