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Arif Dirlik
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Knight Professor of Social Science and Professor of History and Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene. Author of Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution and others.

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Red anarchy symbol, a capital letter A inside a circle, painted with rough brush strokes on a white background.
Anarchism, cluster of doctrines and attitudes centred on the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary. Anarchist thought developed in the West and spread throughout the world, principally in the early 20th century. Derived from the Greek root anarchos meaning “without authority,”…
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