ABSTRACT
Anarchism is a political philosophy, or better, a family of political philosophies, favoring a social order based on voluntary association and rejecting the legitimacy of the state. Although for most of its adherents anarchism means an opposition not solely to the state but also to various broader forms of hierarchy, domination, or aggression (with the details differing from theorist to theorist), anarchists agree at the very least on the desirability of abolishing the state in particular, whatever else they might agree or disagree about.
