One who believes in or advocates the absence of hierarchy and authority in most forms (compare anarchism), especially one who works toward the realization of such
Anarchists advocate the overthrow of organized government They sometimes see cooperatives and voluntary associations of individuals and groups as the best way to organize society Anarchists called the protest meeting at Haymarket Square in Chicago in 1886, and anarchists shot the manager of the Carnegie Steel Company during the Homestead strike in 1892
disapproval If you say that someone is an anarchist, you disapprove of them because they seem to pay no attention to the rules or laws that everyone else obeys. He was a social anarchist. someone who believes that governments, laws etc are not necessary
{i} advocate of anarchy (social movement that objects to laws and government); partaker in anarchism; one who causes chaos or excites uprising against any established law or rule