According to different scholars, depending upon the scope and definition of the term "anarchism", the history of anarchism either dates to the emergence of ancient socio-political ideologies and relat
Diogenes of Sinope advocated anarchistic forms of society
The Storming of the Bastille inspired generations of anarchists
William Godwin, a founder of modern anarchist theory
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first self-described anarchist and founder of mutualism
Contemporary anarchism within the history of anarchism is the period of the anarchist movement continuing from the end of World War II and into the present. Since the last third of the 20th century, a
Members of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist trade union CNT marching in Madrid in 2010
Contemporary members of the Italian Anarchist Federation marching in Rome in 2008 in an anti-Catholic manifestation (the text translates as "free from dogmas, always heretics")
Rojava is supporting efforts for workers to form cooperatives such as this sewing cooperative