noun
anarchism
Political doctrine opposing all forms of government and advocating voluntary cooperation.
彼は無政府主義の思想家として知られている。
He is known as a thinker of anarchism.
Katakana loanword for anarchism, often used in academic or international contexts; 無政府主義 is the native Japanese term.
Compound of 無 (mu, 'without'), 政府 (seifu, 'government'), and 主義 (shugi, 'doctrine'). The term was coined in the Meiji period to translate Western concepts of anarchism.