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Question 16 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension 2020 Medium MCQ +3.00 marks · -1.00 negative

The word 'anarchy' comes from the Greek anarkhia, meaning contrary to authority or without a ruler, and was used in a derogatory sense until 1840, when it was adopted by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon to describe his political and social ideology. Proudhon argued that organization…

The author makes all of the following arguments in the passage, EXCEPT:

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