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Anarchy is a term that has two different, but often related, usages:
Anarchy can mean a society based on the principles of one or more strain(s) of the political theory anarchism.
Critics of anarchism, and others not intending to criticise or confuse, sometimes use the term to describe what might more accurately be called anomie.