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    7 months ago

    anarchy as an idea was always horizontal government structure built on decentralised syndicates and communes

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    Your ancient Greek sucks, bruv.

    https://www.etymonline.com/word/anarchy#etymonline_v_13397

    1530s, “absence of government,” from French anarchie or directly from Medieval Latin anarchia, from Greek anarkhia “lack of a leader, the state of people without a government” (in Athens, used of the Year of Thirty Tyrants, 404 B.C., when there was no archon), abstract noun from anarkhos “rulerless,” from an- “without” (see an- (1)) + arkhos “leader” (see archon).

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        7 months ago

        So you admit that the definitions I’ve used are right, thanks.

        Language evolves, yes. Words can have several colloquial meanings. But prescriptive meanings don’t change.

        Prescriptively, the type of “anarchism” you support is minarchic synarchism, and not anarchism, per se