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anarchist

a person who advocates the abolition of government and a social system based on voluntary cooperation

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"That," replied the Anarchist, who was not without a certain hardness of head, "that is none of your business; I am not bound to be consistent.

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The cries of "Sedition!" and "Anarchist!" redoubled.

And yet you call me anarchist. You, who have destroyed the government of the people, and who shamelessly flaunt your scarlet shame in public places, call me anarchist.

There is the classic instance of the ferocious and wanton judicial murder of the innocent and so-called Haymarket Anarchists in Chicago in the penultimate decade of the nineteenth century A.D.

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He had become a monomaniac and an anarchist--not a philosophic anarchist, merely, but a violent anarchist.

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It's a society," he explained, standing ponderously by the side of the arm-chair, "not anarchist in principle, but open to all shades of revolutionary opinion."

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Schliemann called himself a "philosophic anarchist"; and he explained that an anarchist was one who believed that the end of human existence was the free development of every personality, unrestricted by laws save those of its own being.

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He learned, also, that he spoke nightly to the workmen in the City Hall Park, and that among the anarchists and agitators that there inflamed the minds of the people he drew the largest audiences and made the most revolutionary speeches.

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They want me to stay with them, and as they're in the thick of all the conspiracies and anarchists, I've a good mind to stop on my way home.

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There is no man more despised and disliked abroad, not only because he is a Jew and ill-bred, but because of his known sympathy with some of these anarchists who are perfect firebrands in Europe."

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Joss Whedon, Anarchist? A Unified Theory of the Films and Television Series

You don't have to walk far in Athens, Greece, to see signs of the local anarchist community: Circle-A symbols are everywhere.