The symbol composed of the capital letter A surrounded by a circle is universally recognized as a symbol of anarchism and has been established in global youth culture since the 1970s.
Definition: A circle is the set of all points in a plane that are equidistant from a given point called the center of the circle. We use the symbol ⊙ to represent a circle. The a line segment from the center of the circle to any point on the circle is a radius of the circle.
Anarchy is a society without a government. It may also refer to a society or group of people that entirely rejects a set hierarchy. In practical terms, anarchy can refer to the curtailment or abolition of traditional forms of government and institutions.
Ā is used to denote a long A. Examples are the Baltic languages (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, including Māori, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian, Pashto, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (which represents a long A sound) and Arabic, and some Latin texts (especially for learners).
IEC 60417-5010, the power on-off symbol (line within a circle), is used on buttons that switch a device between on and fully off states.
That's because on something like a typewriter, “O” (capital oh) looks much like “0” (number zero). So you put a slash through the round shape to clearly mean “zero” and a dot in the middle of the round shape to mean “oh”.
Anarchists are generally committed against coercive authority in all forms, namely "all centralized and hierarchical forms of government (e.g., monarchy, representative democracy, state socialism, etc.), economic class systems (e.g., capitalism, Bolshevism, feudalism, slavery, etc.), autocratic religions (e.g., ...
Anarchism Today is a 1971 book on the connection between the 1960s New Left and classical anarchism. Edited by David E. Apter and James Joll, it was published by Macmillan Press in 1971.
Stop/Start Active Light – An “A” inside an open circle on the dashboard that indicates that your Cherokee is in Auto-Stop mode.
Auto Start-Stop Indicator: This light is depicted as the letter A encircled by an arrow. It illuminates when your engine is shutting down during auto start-stop.
They indicate that the system is on and functioning properly. The image is the circle between brackets used as a standard for brakes, which may hold the letter A or H inside for automatic or hold.
Circle-A, a symbol for anarchy or anarchism.
Both Buber and Tolstoy offer their spiritual positions as primary, and their social-political positions as following naturally and straightforwardly from them. These spiritual anarchists believed that the only possibly way of orienting a free society of free individuals is upon a Judeo-Christian ground.
What Is Anarchy? Anarchy, derived from a Greek word meaning "having no ruler," is a belief system that rejects governmental authority in favor of self-governing or community consensus that has become a synonym for chaos and the breakdown of civil order.
In the mid 20th century anarchism's influence was primarily restricted to urban bohemian cultural movements. In the late 20th century and early 21st century Australian anarchism has been an element in Australia's social justice and protest movements.
Anarchist communism or anarcho-communism, also known as communist anarchism or libertarian communism, is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that advocates communism. It calls for the abolition of private property but retains personal property and collectively-owned items, goods, and services.
Anarchists "are generally non-religious and are frequently anti-religious, and the standard anarchist slogan is the phrase coined by a non-anarchist, the socialist Auguste Blanqui in 1880: 'Ni Dieu ni maître!
Anarchist criminologists hold that crime is caused by structures of oppression and domination. Accordingly, their priority is often to critique these structures, with the goal of replacing them, rather than to develop detailed analyses of how they cause crime.
The most fundamental maxim of many anarchist tendencies is that no individual has the right to coerce another individual, and that everyone has the right to defend themselves against coercion (the non-aggression principle or zero aggression principle).
Anarchism is generally defined as the libertarian philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary and harmful as well as opposing authoritarianism, illegitimate authority and hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations.
Phi (/faɪ/; uppercase Φ, lowercase φ or ϕ; Ancient Greek: ϕεῖ pheî [pʰéî̯]; Modern Greek: φι fi [fi]) is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
The slashed zero is used in a number of fields in order to avoid confusion with the letter 'O'. It is used by computer programmers, in recording amateur radio call signs and in military radio, as logs of such contacts tend to contain both letters and numerals.