[ **up: [[Politics]]** ] --- # 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.[^1] --- ## External resources - [The Anarchist Library](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index) [^1]: Emma Goldman, *Anarchism and Other Essays* (New York, Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1911), p. 22.