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Anarchy (Greek: αναρχία) is the anarchist society, the stateless society of free people. Anarchism is the name of a political philosophy, or a generic term for a group of more-or-less related political philosophies, derived from the Greek an-archos ("without archons" or "without rulers"). Thus, "anarchism," in its most general meaning, is the belief that all forms of rulership, excluding rule of oneself by oneself, are unnecessary, improper, and contrary to the general welfare.