Recent Examples on the WebThe socialist and anarchist was married to one of the protestors in the infamous Haymarket Square labor protest in Chicago. Malaika Jabali, Essence, 5 Sep. 2022 Many have been involved in Atlanta’s local anarchist and community-organizing scene; some worked on mutual-aid projects during Covid, or participated in the George Floyd protests, or helped organize traditional union campaigns at their workplaces. Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2022 An Uruguayan anarchist abroad in Belgium receives an ominous letter that suggests his family’s in danger. Holly Jones, Variety, 25 July 2022 In this action spy thriller, after a mission goes haywire, a dangerous anarchist, Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) escapes custody.cleveland, 11 June 2022 Harry Houdini, anarchist Emma Goldman and educator Booker T. Washington. Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2022 This first-person account is written by Bevel’s ghostwriter, Ida Partenza, the daughter of an Italian anarchist who works, much to her father’s chagrin, for their class enemy. Jane Hu, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022 Outline toured the South in Antonoff’s parents’ minivan, playing a strip mall in Virginia and an anarchist bookstore in Florida. Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022 These words are spoken in 1938 by an Italian-American anarchist ideologically opposed to capitalism. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
anarchy + -ist entry 1; as a proponent of a political theory after French anarchiste.
Note: The use of the French words anarchisme and anarchiste in reference to political theory are associated with Pierre-Joseph proudhon. In his first major work, Qu'est-ce que la propriété? Recherche sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement (Paris, 1840), Proudhon used anarchiste (p.229), but not anarchisme.