Anarchy
'What we are concerned with, in terms of definition, is a cluster of words which in turn represents a cluster of doctrines and attitudes whose principle uniting feature is the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary. A double Greek root is involved: the word archon, meaning ruler, and the prefix an, indicating without; hence anarchy means the state of being without a ruler. By derivation, anarchism is the doctrine which contends that government is the source of most of our social troubles and that there are viable alternative forms of voluntary organisation. And by further definition the anarchist is the man who sets out to create a society without government.' George Woodcock, 'The Anarchist Reader'.
