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      1. it is such a remarkable trick of language that the word "anarchy" in English is associated with both disorganised chaos and a political ideology. it maintains a direct subliminal line between the two. "don't like hierarchies? think we can do better? you must love chaos."
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      this is not the case, for example, in arabic. chaos is فوضة 'fawda' and anarchy is لاسلطوية 'lasultaweeya', literally "no sulta-ism" where sulta is the arabic word for political power (eg where 'sultan' comes from) and broadly speaking the political class.
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    sulta is the word we use for the establishment we are rising up against in the lebanese revolution. linguistically it is clear in arabic that if you are an anarchist your goals are to dismantle political hierarchies. the idea of chaos is linguistically disjoint, unrelated.
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      I'm curious how this is in other languages? where else is anarchism as an ideology linguistically equated with chaos?
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