anarchism is an ideology that is defined by the central belief that political authority in all its form and especially in the form of the state is both evil and unnecessary anarchy literally means with out rule anarchists believe that the states is evil because as a repository of sovereign compulsory and coercive authority it is an offence against the principles of freedom and equality the core value of anarchism being unrestricted personal autonomy the state and the accompanying institutions of government and law are therefore as corrupt and corrupting however the belief that the state is unnecessary in on less important to anarchism anarchists reject political order but have considerable faith in natural order and spontaneous social harmony ultimately under-pinned by optimistic assumptions about human nature government in other words is not the solution to the problem of order but is cause