What's the difference between anarchist and fanaticism?

Anarchist


Definition:

  • (n.) An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Often responsibility for the attacks is claimed on an anarchist website .
  • (2) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
  • (3) Its failure first motivated cultural nationalists, socialists, anarchists and revolutionaries across Europe, before seeding many anti-colonial movements in Asia and Africa.
  • (4) The church excommunicated him in 1901, unhappy with his novel Resurrection and Tolstoy's espousal of Christian anarchist and pacifist views.
  • (5) Middle-class professional members working alongside self-styled anarchists.
  • (6) "It unfairly implies that anyone involved in anarchism should be known to the police and is involved in an dangerous activity," said Jason Sands, an anarchist from South London.
  • (7) • Laziomar runs regular ferries from Terracina and Formia Santo Stefano Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Silvia Marchetti Today this jet-black rock, the tiniest of the Pontines, is uninhabited, but until 1965 thousands of criminals, mafiosi and anarchists were jailed and tortured here.
  • (8) As critics of Mr Berlusconi have been barred from the state broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italia, Mr Fo protests that artists are being "defenestrated" metaphorically from the RAI for the same reasons that leftwing dissidents were literally thrown out of police station windows in the 1970s when Mr Fo wrote his work Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
  • (9) He also urged anarchists and radical anti-capitalist groups to stay away from mainstream protests by the trade unions, churches and charities being staged in Belfast on Saturday and Enniskillen on Monday.
  • (10) Already, scruffy anarchists have taken to the Internet to denounce any socialist group for engaging with the corporate state and seeking reform of a broken system.
  • (11) There was no warning about other political groups, but next to an image of the anarchist emblem, the City of Westminster police's "counter terrorist focus desk" called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers stating: "Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy.
  • (12) In Barcelona, anarchist workers put down the Nationalist insurgency and launch a social revolution of their own.
  • (13) The so-called "block" of anarchists attached to the demonstrations appears to be growing, however, and masked figures were, as with the storming of Conservative headquarters in Millbank in the first protest, at the forefront of the action.
  • (14) Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume One (2003) and Volume Two (2005) The anarchist Emma Goldman was a woman of many causes – free speech, women’s emancipation, birth control and workers’ rights.
  • (15) One view suggests that it was actual students, not anarchists, who rioted.Certainly, most of the 56 arrested are bona fide students.
  • (16) Comfort's mistrust of political and military power, his anarchist faith in personal responsibility, his sense of a more honest life that might be lived beyond the limits of convention – these flow from The Silver River to The Joy of Sex and beyond.
  • (17) The 79-year-old author of plays such as Accidental Death of an Anarchist, who has never held public office but was backed by the Communist and Green parties, paid a grudging tribute to his rival, saying: "He's someone who says the same things as I do, only the day after."
  • (18) His performance as the charismatic cop-killer Michel Poiccard made him the embodiment of a new concept of cool, soon called Belmondism and defined by L'Express as "a bit of a crook, a bit of an anarchist, a bad boy but with a soft heart".
  • (19) India’s political elite has been left reeling after a radical anti-corruption, anti-establishment party led by a self-confessed anarchist swept to power in the capital of the world’s biggest democracy.
  • (20) The woman, who did not want to be named, said "Officer B" arrived in Cardiff in 2005, becoming a key member of the 20-strong Anarchist network in the city and "one of her best friends".

Fanaticism


Definition:

  • (n.) Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Remember that the dark forces of fear and fanaticism never die.
  • (2) Was justice itself falling prey to the menacing mood of rightwing fanaticism that has pervaded the country with the inexorable rise of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn?
  • (3) Congress party president Sonia Gandhi , whose daughter Priyanka and son Rahul are also on the campaign trail, told voters on Wednesday that Modi represented a "dangerous combination of religious fanaticism, power and money".
  • (4) The Indian position has been that any attempt to reconcile with militants is doomed to failure and risks plunging Afghanistan into anarchy and fanaticism from which Pakistan stands to benefit.
  • (5) Among other things, the novels work as a meditation on America's Calvinist conscience, its strengths and blindnesses, and the way that it moved from fanaticism to smugness in the century after the civil war.
  • (6) Just marvel at the visceral and psychologically revealing language that Sullivan, after ennobling western violence, uses for the London attack [his emphasis]: "terrorism in its most animal-like form, created and sustained entirely by religious fanaticism which would find any excuse to murder, destroy and oppress Muslims and non-Muslims in the name of God."
  • (7) In an atmosphere of “coercion, fear and fanaticism”, blackmail, theft and smuggling have supported the continuation of armed conflict so that the Syrian economy has become “a black hole” absorbing “domestic and external resources”.Oil production continues to be an “important financial resource” for Isis and other armed groups, it says.
  • (8) So he positively enjoyed draping what is, in fact, a chilling allegory of paternal possessiveness and pseudo-scientific fanaticism, in the gaudy fabric of a "romance", just as the author pretends, in his pseudo-preface, to have discovered it among the works of "M de l'Aubépine" (French for "haw-thorn").
  • (9) But the events in Iran are a stark reminder of the glowering presence of religion on the world stage, not just in the form of al-Qaida-style fanaticism.
  • (10) Two years ago, I pleaded with Xulhaz to leave Bangladesh in the face of growing fanaticism.
  • (11) It is held that the one thing that remains constant is the fanaticism, even if the specific beliefs are subject to change.
  • (12) The Salesman review: Asghar Farhadi offers layers of Willy Loman Read more It said: “On behalf of all nominees, we would like to express our unanimous and emphatic disapproval of the climate of fanaticism and nationalism we see today in the US and in so many other countries, in parts of the population and, mostly and unfortunately of all, among leading politicians.” Regardless of who wins the Oscar “we believe there is no best country, best gender, best religion or best colour,” the directors added.
  • (13) Her communist sympathies have been fanned almost to the point of fanaticism owing to her upbringing in Rhodesia MI5 continued to monitor Lessing’s movements, speeches and writing, and eagerly passed titbits on to the South African police.
  • (14) The Reina atrocity shows how deeply Islamic fanaticism has taken hold in Turkey | Elif Shafak Read more The bloodbath has now been claimed by Islamic State .
  • (15) Eurocrats with their centralising obsession reminded Judt of George Santayana's definition of fanaticism: redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
  • (16) At one level, it is intended as a show of global solidarity with the US, a signal that the international community can unite in its opposition to fanaticism.
  • (17) As Marston sails for Europe, watching America recede into his past, Fitzgerald offers a closing meditation nearly as incantatory as the famous conclusion of Gatsby: "Watching the fading city, the fading shore, from the deck of the Majestic, he had a sense of overwhelming gratitude and of gladness that America was there, that under the ugly débris of industry the rich land still pushed up, incorrigibly lavish and fertile, and that in the heart of the leaderless people the old generosities and devotions fought on, breaking out sometimes in fanaticism and excess, but indomitable and undefeated.
  • (18) He added: "There seems to be no doubt that one of the deceased was blind, but the fact that he got where he did get [moving across rugged countryside and over a ridge] suggests a fanaticism which would fully explain the description given to me of his standing in front of the crowd and waving it forward."
  • (19) From Saudi Arabia to Kuwait, they are key allies and partners of the British government, and the Tories are endeavouring to forge ever closer links with these despotic exporters of fanaticism.
  • (20) We only owe you stabbing the kidneys and striking the necks.’ “Well, Madam Speaker, I don’t think it would be possible to witness uglier fanaticism than this, more monstrous fanaticism and extremism than this, and I regret to say it is now present in our country.” The prime minister’s words came a day after police announced the arrest of two men and the seizure of a machete, a hunting knife and a homemade Islamic State flag in the western Sydney suburb of Fairfield.

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