How to Use anarchism in a Sentence
anarchism
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The book is full of anarchism and vitriol with regard to land use, not to mention Abbey’s signature bluntness and wry, dry humor.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
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Direct action is one of several key tenets of anarchism.
—Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 21 May 2019
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Caserta had a red and black anarchist flag draped on his living room wall, and had books related to practicing anarchism.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2022
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But inside this promoter of luxury goods breathed the spirit of anarchism.
—Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
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William Godwin, an early advocate of anarchism, survived a great deal longer.
—Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
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But Beau, whose real name is Justin King, also had a history of supporting anarchism and making statements that to many seem anti-Semitic.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2021
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Then, as now, the threats of anarchism and terrorism fuelled anti-immigrant feeling.
—The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
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Many are involved in other causes, such as socialism or anarchism.
—Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2017
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Despite the branding, Ballad is perhaps best described as a book-length explanation of how the famous prisoner Serge came to serve his first sentence: anarchism.
—Malcolm Harris, New Republic, 24 Oct. 2017
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Start with the word salad of Marxism, anarchism, and existentialism.
—Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
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Along with being a musician, Lyle is a writer and artist who came of age in the South Florida punk scene, documenting the connections between punk and its inherent activism and anarchism in the zine Scam.
—Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
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And if Dom’s failed mission to take down the real force behind the 5/9 hack is disappointing, the aftermath for the idealistic anarchism of fsociety has been nightmarish.
—Scott Meslow, GQ, 10 Oct. 2017
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The Boogaloo Bois’ flavor of libertarian, anti-law-enforcement anarchism can be hard to peg on the left-right political spectrum.
—Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2022
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The description includes a black flag emoji, which often symbolizes anarchism.
—oregonlive, 3 June 2020
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The library is crammed with books about anarchism, occupation movements, the Paris Commune, utopias, territorial and peasant struggles.
—Isabelle Frémeaux, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2020
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Le Guin was a feminist and an environmentalist with deep interests in anarchism and taoism.
—Lincoln Michel, GQ, 25 Jan. 2018
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As Jacobs acknowledges, anarchism is a living practice more than an ideology; its contours are not shaped by devotion to any particular texts or thinkers.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
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As a young man, he’d been attracted to political anarchism, especially as embodied in the work of Gustav Landauer, a leading German-Jewish theorist of the movement.
—George Prochnik, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2017
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Le Guin made anarchism beautiful but also human—and therefore questionable.
—Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
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The murder mystery becomes entangled, at times awkwardly, with larger social issues like unionism, anarchism and the women’s suffrage movement.
—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 4 May 2018
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These are questions that Graeber, a committed anarchist—an exponent not of anarchy but of anarchism, the idea that people can get along perfectly well without governments—asked throughout his career.
—William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2021
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But alongside Chile’s institutional habits runs a current of anarchism and bohemianism.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
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As Valerie’s life unfolds in a blur of expectations and disappointment—predatory men, particularly, lurk at every stage of the story—her anarchism is humanized, without losing its teeth.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2019
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Libertarian communism—or some kind of anarcho-syndicalism / left-libertarianism / post-apocalyptic agrarian anarchism might be just the thing for the end of the world.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
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In his piece, Jacobs writes that Kropotkin believed anarchism depended on cooperation, contrasting this with competition.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
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In one brawl involving dozens of people, protestors waving Confederate flags clashed with opposition marchers carrying black-and-red flags, which commonly represent anti-fascist anarchism.
—David Z. Morris, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2017
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Is anarchism feasible in a society of any considerable size or complexity, where coordination, authority, and expertise are essential?
—George Scialabba, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
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The Dawn of Everything is not a brief for anarchism, though anarchist values—antiauthoritarianism, participatory democracy, small-c communism—are everywhere implicit in it.
—William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2021
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