The concept of anarchism is used to designate a current of political thought according to which the only form of existence for a community is that of not having any type of government or State that directs it. The word anarchism comes from the Greek, language according to which the prefix "a" (in this case an) means absence, lack or negation and the term arquia means government or power. Thus, according to this explanation, anarchy would be the absolute absence of government or a defined power, which represents in society a certain tendency to chaos and disorder, although some anarchist currents recover the power of communal spaces such as assemblies and do not discard full participation popular if not that they mainly despise the state.
Historically, anarchism is one of the most important left-wing ideological forms or positions of modernity. However, many specialists argue that primitive forms of anarchism have existed throughout history, being represented mainly by disorderly and unorganized protest movements that had no specific purposes but rather a complaint against the system imposed at that time. determined. Thus, protests, rebellions and revolts from different historical periods serve as a previous expression of what we know as pure anarchism.
It is undoubtedly during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that this political position ends up being shaped and shaped, especially in light of all the changes that modernity brought to the life of the human being and that had to do directly with the worsening of their quality of life. life based on the new social and labor rules that allowed, in turn, the enrichment of a few. Nineteenth-century anarchism tended to identify the State with those powerful sectors of society, understanding that those who were part of it were always the same ones who exploited factory and rural workers since at that time democracies were still restricted.
Unlike other expressions of the left such as communism and socialism , anarchism is the only one that proposes reforms from outside the State, which means that it does not participate in elections because it considers that they always justify or benefit the most powerful sectors, entrenched in power. It is one of the most radical forms of the left since, in addition to rejecting the State, it tends to move with revolts and acts of violence that aim to damage private property, considered one of the main evils of our society.