How does Mitchinson define anarchism wrongly?
Mitchinson states: “In reality the leaders of these movements are not devoid of ideology, they are anarchists. Anarchism is not simply a term of abuse, it comes from the Greek word ‘anarchos’ meaning ‘without government’. To anarchists the state – the institutions of government, the army, police, courts etc. – is the root cause of all that is wrong in the world. It must be destroyed and replaced not with any new form of government, but the immediate introduction of a stateless society.” Firstly, “anarchos” actually means “without authority,” or “contrary to authority” (as Kropotkin put it). It does not mean “without government” as such (although it commonly is used that way). This means that anarchism does not consider the state as “the root of all that is wrong with the world” — we consider it, like capitalism (wage slavery), patriarchy, hierarchy in general, etc., as a symptom of a deeper problem, namely authority (or, more precisely, authoritarian social relations, hierarchical pow
