A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government
Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature
disapproval If you describe a situation as anarchy, you mean that nobody seems to be paying any attention to rules or laws. Civil war and famine sent the nation plunging into anarchy. = chaos. a situation in which there is no effective government in a country or no order in an organization or situation (anarchia, from , from anarchos , from an- + archos )
Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature