Dictionary

anarchild en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of anarchist + child.

Meanings

1. (Internet) Synonym of anarkid (“an immature or uninformed anarchist”)
   • Silly anarchild, the debate on democracy has already been settled in Tiananmen Square on June 6th 1989. 2022 December 3, u/Stercore_, “If democracy has become superfluous or annoying to the bourgeoisie, it is on the contrary necessary and indispensable to the working class.--Rosa Luxemburg”, in Reddit, r/tankiejerk, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2025:
   • Hey, I wanted to have a good faith discussion here, but I'm afraid you may be too terminally online to engage with leftists who disagree with you in good faith. Peace anarchild. 2021 January 28, “Revolution is not done through buying stocks...”, in Reddit, r/antiwork, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2025:
   • The anarchildren are angry with me 2024 August 21, @barbarismcrit, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2025:
   • We find tankies tend to use pejorative terms to describe other ideologies in a toxic manner. E.g., anarkiddies, anarchildren, and anarkids instead of anarchists, succdems, succ dems, and succs instead of socdems, and westoids and libshits when referring to liberals. We also find "ultras" & "tankies" and "radlibs" & "tankies" pairs. [2025 June 13, Utkucan Balci, Michael Sirivianos, Jeremy Blackburn, “Roll in the Tanks! Measuring Left-wing Extremism on Reddit at Scale”, in arXiv, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2025:
   • People will be like "as an anarchist myself, these online anarchildren need to chill out, y'all are being very extreme lately" and what got them clutching their pearls will be a bog standard family abolition take that even Marx agreed with lol 2022 June 20, @CarniolanLeshy, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2025:

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Synonyms

anarkid