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The 116 pages that link to Anarchism, each with the reason it gives.

• MarxismCompared with: Anarchists and Marxists have differed over political authority and the role of the state in social transformation.

• Social democracyCompared with: Social democracy relies on state institutions that anarchist traditions seek to replace or abolish.

• SocialismRelated: Anarchist socialism seeks collective ownership without a centralized state.

• Social contractCompared with: Anarchist arguments challenge whether any agreement can justify enduring political domination.

• Marxism–LeninismCompared with: Its rejection of centralized state power conflicts with Marxism–Leninism’s transitional state.

• RepublicanismCompared with: Republicanism seeks accountable public government rather than the abolition of the state.

• CommunismCompared with: Anarchist communists share the goal of common ownership but reject centralized state authority.

• TerrorismRelated: Some nineteenth-century militants associated anarchism with attacks intended to provoke political change.

• StateCompared with: It challenges the necessity and legitimacy of state authority.

• BolsheviksCompared with: Anarchists rejected the centralized party-state model established by the Bolsheviks.

• Belle ÉpoqueCompared with: Anarchist activism revealed the period’s sharp conflicts over power and social order.

• Political philosophyCompared with: It challenges the assumption that legitimate political order requires a centralized state.

• Second InternationalCompared with: Anarchists' rejection of state-centered political action set them apart from the International's dominant parties.

• Mikhail BakuninNarrower topic: Bakunin became one of anarchism’s most influential nineteenth-century theorists.

• Political assassinationRelated: Some nineteenth-century militants justified attacks on rulers as propaganda by deed.

• TrotskyismCompared with: Trotskyists seek a workers’ state during transition, unlike anarchist rejection of state power.

• NihilismRelated: Some nihilist movements turned rejection of inherited authority into revolutionary politics.

• Pierre-Joseph ProudhonNarrower topic: Proudhon’s writings helped establish anarchism as a named political tradition.

• Punk subcultureRelated: Anarchist ideas informed some punks’ anti-authoritarian politics, though punk was never politically uniform.

• AuthorityCompared with: Anarchist arguments challenge whether political authority can be justified at all.

• BolshevismCompared with: Anarchists rejected the centralized party and state power favored by Bolshevism.

• Emma GoldmanNarrower topic: Goldman’s campaigns and arguments drew their organizing principles from anarchism.

• Propaganda of the deedNarrower topic: The strategy became closely associated with anarchist currents, though it is not identical to anarchism.

• State socialismCompared with: Anarchist socialists reject centralized state power as a route to social ownership.

• Ursula K. Le GuinRelated: The Dispossessed dramatizes anarchism through Anarres and its tensions.

• Peter KropotkinNarrower topic: Kropotkin’s political proposals belong to this broader tradition.

• Dictatorship of the proletariatCompared with: Anarchists reject the use of a transitional state as a route to emancipation.

• First InternationalNarrower topic: Bakunin’s conflict with Marx helped sharpen anarchism’s separation from centralized socialist politics.

• Political authorityCompared with: Anarchist arguments challenge whether political authority can ever impose a general duty to obey.

• Revolutionary socialismCompared with: Anarchists often share revolutionary aims while rejecting the state-centered transition proposed by Marxist currents.

• Utopian socialismCompared with: Some anarchist currents shared communal experiments but rejected centralized social planning.

• Anarchist communismNarrower topic: Anarchist communism is one tradition within anarchism, sharing its opposition to state authority.

• State of natureCompared with: It questions whether leaving the state of nature requires establishing sovereign government.

• Situationist InternationalRelated: Situationist calls for autonomy and transformed everyday life intersected with anarchist politics without simply duplicating them.

• William GodwinNarrower topic: Godwin’s critique of government made him a foundational thinker for later anarchist traditions.

• GovernmentCompared with: It challenges the assumption that political communities require centralized government.

• Individualist anarchismNarrower topic: Individualist anarchism is one strand within the broader anarchist tradition.

• Free loveRelated: Anarchists applied opposition to authority to marriage and sexual relationships.

• Proletarian revolutionCompared with: Many anarchists seek revolutionary transformation while rejecting the transitional state Marxists propose.

• Soviet democracyCompared with: Anarchists often supported councils but rejected the centralized state built around them.

• State monopoly on violenceCompared with: Its political ideal rejects the state’s claim to exclusive legitimate force.

• Vanguard partyCompared with: Anarchists reject the centralized party’s claim to lead workers toward emancipation.

• VanguardismCompared with: Its suspicion of centralized authority challenges the vanguard party's organizational premise.

• Christian anarchismNarrower topic: Christian anarchism applies anarchist opposition to domination to political and religious authority.

• Agrarian socialismCompared with: Anarchist agrarian currents reject centralized authority more categorically than many socialist programs.

• Alexander BerkmanNarrower topic: Berkman’s lifelong activism and writing were grounded in anarchist politics.

• Anti-authoritarianismCompared with: Anarchism is a radical anti-authoritarian tradition, but anti-authoritarianism does not always reject the state.

• CommunalismCompared with: Some communal arrangements are anarchist, but communal ownership alone does not entail opposition to the state.

• Democratic confederalismCompared with: Its affinities and differences raise questions about whether confederalism can coexist with existing states.

• Limited governmentCompared with: It differs from limited government, which constrains state power rather than abolishing it.