Anarchy
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Anarchy can refer to several different things:
- The word anarchy, referring to an absence of government.
- "The Anarchy" is the name given a period of civil war and unsettled government in England during the reign of King Stephen of England.
- Absence of a ruler, ruling class, ruling political party or parties, or power elite.
- In Anarchism, the word may refer to the ideology's desired society. In English this usage is not usual because of the word's pejorative overtones. However, see for example:
- Anarchy, a magazine published in London in the 1960s and 1970s;
- Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
- Anarchy, a book by Errico Malatesta;
- Anarchy!: An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth, edited by Peter Glassgold.
- Anarchy is the title of a 2000 album by rapper Busta Rhymes.
- Anarchy Online is an MMORPG (computer game)
- The title of a song by KMFDM