How to Use anarchism in a Sentence

anarchism

noun
  • There’s a character who is an anarchist, and anarchism becomes a thread through the whole book.
    — Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Many are involved in other causes, such as socialism or anarchism.
    — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2017
  • But sticking to anarchism would imply an almost certain defeat.
    — Kai Ye, WIRED, 23 July 2023
  • But inside this promoter of luxury goods breathed the spirit of anarchism.
    — Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
  • William Godwin, an early advocate of anarchism, survived a great deal longer.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
  • Caserta had a red and black anarchist flag draped on his living room wall, and had books related to practicing anarchism.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Then, as now, the threats of anarchism and terrorism fuelled anti-immigrant feeling.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The book is full of anarchism and vitriol with regard to land use, not to mention Abbey’s signature bluntness and wry, dry humor.
    — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • This tumult gave rise to the political philosophies of communism and anarchism, as well as the early labor movement.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The description includes a black flag emoji, which often symbolizes anarchism.
    — oregonlive, 3 June 2020
  • Start with the word salad of Marxism, anarchism, and existentialism.
    — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
  • Today, it is considered a founding text of philosophical anarchism.
    — Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
  • For the student of anarchism, Sabul may be the novel’s most significant character.
    — Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Le Guin made anarchism beautiful but also human—and therefore questionable.
    — Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • By the eighteen-eighties, Chicago had become the center of labor politics and the demand for the eight-hour day, of socialism and anarchism.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Le Guin was a feminist and an environmentalist with deep interests in anarchism and taoism.
    — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Ben Woollard on Tolstoy’s Christian anarchism.
    — Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
  • Ben Woollard on Tolstoy’s Christian anarchism.
    — Literary Hub, 21 June 2025
  • This left-wing version of anarchism postulated the end of private property and the social ownership and distribution of resources.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Feb. 2025
  • But alongside Chile’s institutional habits runs a current of anarchism and bohemianism.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • As Jacobs acknowledges, anarchism is a living practice more than an ideology; its contours are not shaped by devotion to any particular texts or thinkers.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • As Jacobs acknowledges, anarchism is a living practice more than an ideology; its contours are not shaped by devotion to any particular texts or thinkers.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • But the more important separation between then and now is in the spirit of ebullient anarchism that infuses Saturday Night.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The murder mystery becomes entangled, at times awkwardly, with larger social issues like unionism, anarchism and the women’s suffrage movement.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 4 May 2018
  • But Beau, whose real name is Justin King, also had a history of supporting anarchism and making statements that to many seem anti-Semitic.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The Boogaloo Bois’ flavor of libertarian, anti-law-enforcement anarchism can be hard to peg on the left-right political spectrum.
    — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2022
  • And when liberalism seems weak and people are impatient for change, authoritarianism or anarchism can seem suitable alternatives to many.
    — Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The library is crammed with books about anarchism, occupation movements, the Paris Commune, utopias, territorial and peasant struggles.
    — Isabelle Frémeaux, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Her anarchism was part of the Edinburgh Character and her conservatism rooted in respect for order, authority and ritual.
    — Frances Wilson september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • And if Dom’s failed mission to take down the real force behind the 5/9 hack is disappointing, the aftermath for the idealistic anarchism of fsociety has been nightmarish.
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 10 Oct. 2017

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