How to Use anarchism in a Sentence

anarchism

noun

• 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
• Direct action is one of several key tenets of anarchism.
  — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 21 May 2019
• 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
• But inside this promoter of luxury goods breathed the spirit of anarchism.
  — Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
• William Godwin, an early advocate of anarchism, survived a great deal longer.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
• 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
• Then, as now, the threats of anarchism and terrorism fuelled anti-immigrant feeling.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• Many are involved in other causes, such as socialism or anarchism.
  — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Start with the word salad of Marxism, anarchism, and existentialism.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The description includes a black flag emoji, which often symbolizes anarchism.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2020
• 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
• Le Guin was a feminist and an environmentalist with deep interests in anarchism and taoism.
  — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 25 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Le Guin made anarchism beautiful but also human—and therefore questionable.
  — Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• But alongside Chile’s institutional habits runs a current of anarchism and bohemianism.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• In his piece, Jacobs writes that Kropotkin believed anarchism depended on cooperation, contrasting this with competition.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024