What is the root meaning of anarchy?

1530s, "absence of government," from French anarchie or directly from Medieval Latin anarcha, from Greek anarkhia "lack of a leader, the state of people without a government"

In reference to the social theory advocating "order without power," associations and co-operatives took the place of direct government, as formulated in the 1830s by French political philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.