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Revision as of 15:46, 6 December 2002 by MartinHarper (talk | contribs) ("strain(s)"->"strains")(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Anarchy is a term that has a number of different, but often related, usages.
An "anarchy" can mean:
- a society based on the principles of one or more strains of the political theory anarchism. Advocates of one or another form of this theory have named their newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, in various languages, "Anarchy"; for example:
- Critics of anarchism, and others not intending to criticise or confuse, sometimes use the term negatively, to describe what might more accurately be called chaos or anomie.
- The Anarchy is also the name most often given to the period of civil war and unsettled government which occurred in England during the reign of King Stephen I of England.
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