#pubdate 2012-03-18 11:03:21 -0700
#title Some Definitions
#LISTtitle Some Definitions
#author Anonymous
#SORTtopics introductory
#source Retrieved on March 19, 2012 from [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Some_Definitions][en.wikisource.org]]
#date April 2, 1910
#notes Originally published in *Mother Earth*, Vol. V, no. 2, April 1910.

***** Anarchism

The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

***** Anarchy

Absence of government; disbelief in, and disregard of, invasion and authority based on coercion and force; a condition of society regulated by voluntary agreement instead of government.

***** Anarchist

A believer in Anarchism; one opposed to all forms of coercive government and invasive authority; an advocate of Anarchy, or absence of government, as the ideal of political liberty and social harmony.

***** Free communism

Voluntary economic co-operation of all towards the needs of each. A social arrangement based on the principle: To each according to his needs; from each according to his ability.

***** Direct action

Conscious individual or collective effort to protest against, or remedy, social conditions through the systematic assertion of the economic power of the workers.