Anti-authoritarian

Anti-authoritarian

Anti-authoritarianism is opposition to authoritarianism, which is defined as a "political doctrine advocating the principle of absolute rule: absolutism, autocracy, despotism, dictatorship, totalitarianism." [cite web | title = authoritarianism | author = Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus | url = http://www.bartleby.com/62/15/A0111500.html | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Company | date = 1995 | accessdate = 2008-06-25]

Anti-authoritarian was also the name given to the anarchists inside the First International who opposed the Communists. They were excluded from the IWA after the 1872 Hague Congress.

ee also

*Libertarianism
*Libertarian socialism
*Council communism
*Autonomous Marxism

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