Glossary of anarchism
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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.
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Acracy
Ansoc
Anti-systemic library
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…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…
Dispute resolution organization (DRO)
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.
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Haymarket Martyrs
Haymarket Tragedy
Hierarchy
Horizontalidad (also Horizontalism)
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Individual reclamation (reprise individuelle)
The idea that, given that capitalists steal from individuals and the people, it would be legitimate to steal from them in return. This was theorized by Clément Duval and Vittorio Pini and serves as the ideological foundation for the illegalist tendency.
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Land and 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.
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Netwar
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Panarchy (political philosophy)
Participatory politics
Polycentric law
Popular assembly
Post-left
Prefigurative politics
Primitivist
Propaganda of the deed
Property is theft!
Punk house
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Radical cheerleading
Refusal of work
Responsible autonomy
Revolutionary spontaneity
Rewilding
Reprise individuelle
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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.
Security culture
Social center
Social ecology
Social hierarchy
Social revolution
Somatherapy
Spokescouncil
Spontaneous order
Street reclamation
Swaraj
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See also
Bibliography
- Bouhey, Vivien (2008), Les Anarchistes contre la République [The Anarchists against the Republic], Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes (PUR)