archist

archist (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to archism.

archist (plural archists)

1. (uncommon) Synonym of statist (supporter of state control)

   Antonym: anarchist

2. Synonym of hierarchist
   • 1967, Dora Marsden, The Egoist - Volume 1, page 399:

     We are all Archists. Every ego, whether psychic, physical, or social, is archistic. Archism is the very central principle of life; it is that which gives birth to the ego.

   • 1980, Frederic Trautmann, The Voice of Terror: A Biography of Johann Most, page 102:

     The higher the civilization, the more refined the cleverness of the archists in hiding the usurpation of power — without weakening the exercise of power.

   • 2010, John F. Welsh, Max Stirner's dialectical egoism: a new interpretation, page 118:

     Stimer's thought either endorses the anarchist notion that individuals cannot legitimately dominate others, or it endorses the archist idea that they can.

   • 2011, Kalle Puolakka, Relativism and Intentionalism in Interpretation, page 13:

     In other words, Margolis's critical account of archism is motivated by the belief that no one has ever managed to show that the possibility of meaningful discourse truly presupposes a commitment to the archist's thesis, and that discourses must be constrained by such factors the conforming to which the archist introduces as necessary, such as to the principle of noncontradiction. Margolis challenges the alleged authority of this position by outlining an an-archist philosophy, which maintains "that reality may be a flux, that is, lacking invariant structure or lacking necessarilty invariant structure, and that rational thought need not invoke such invariances."

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