Anti-authoritarian
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Anti-authoritarian is of course a person that is against of all kinds of authority. Not all anti-authoritarians are anarchists because in the eyes of some of them, anarchism is also somehow an authority. It is a point of view that ideologies and their leading heads in theory or action can easily become an authority. Sometimes you can just say: libertarian. More generally you can speak about anti-authoritarian movements, like the movement Paris 1968, even if this is a synthesis of different political directions.
Anti-authoritarianism is opposition to authoritarianism, which is defined as "concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people" or the doctrine that advocates such absolutism in rule, as in autocracy, despotism, dictatorship, and totalitarianism. [1] [2] The term anti-authoritarism is typically extended to include a rejection of all forms of political, social, and economic coercion.
Anti-authortiarian also refers to those who reject the authoritarian nature of nation-states and of capitalism because of what they see as its coercive actions, top-down boss/worker relations, and exploitative nature. Anti-authoritarian can also be another term for anarchist, or for those who agree with the anti-capitalist, non-hierarchal, and anti-statist ideals of anarchism, but reject the label anarchist.
Political ideologies that are loosely described as anti-authoritarian:
See also: authoritarianism This term is part of the Infoshop Glossary
