Anti-authoritarianism is opposition to authoritarianism, which is defined as "a form of social organisation characterised by submission to authority",[1] "favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom"[2] and to authoritarian government.[3] Anti-authoritarians usually believe in full equality before the law and strong civil liberties. Sometimes the term is used interchangeably with anarchism, an ideology which entails opposing authority or hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations, including the state system.[4][5][6][7]

Schools of thought

Methodology
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Philosophies and tendencies

Anarchist tendencies
Green Primitivism Social ecology Individualist Egoism Free-market Organisational Insurrectionism Platformism Mutualism Anarcho-syndicalism Synthesism Philosophical Social Collectivism Communism Magonism Pacifist Religious Christian Muslim Jewish
Marxist tendencies
Classical Marxism Libertarian Marxism Autonomism Chaulieu–Montal tendency De Leonism Johnson–Forest tendency Left communism Bordigism Communization Council communism Lettrism Situationism Marxist humanism Western Marxism Frankfurt School Freudo-Marxism Syndicalism
Other tendencies
Cantonalism Communalism Democratic confederalism Dialectical naturalism Libertarian municipalism Social ecology Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Guild socialism Inclusive Democracy Market socialism Left-wing laissez-faire Left-wing market anarchism Neozapatismo New Left Participatory economics Utopian socialism Fourierism