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They're literally synonyms. From Merriam-Webster:

> anarchy - a state in which there is widespread wrongdoing and disregard for rules and authority

If the political ideology doesn't want to be conflated with this it needs a new name.

It sucks but language is descriptive not prescriptive, and meanings change over time.

Dictionaries are neither objectively descriptive nor apolitical - their definitions reflect the biases of their authors and the systems they exist within which allowed them to obtain positions of relative authority.

It meant "without ruler" when it was chosen. It was demonized after the fact.

It's the other way around. Historically "anarchy" almost always had negative connotations. Then Proudhon co-opted the term to use it in a positive sense.

The idea that the absence of a ruler meant total chaos goes back at least to Hobbes.

If I was Calvin's pet tiger I'd probably come to a similar conclusion.

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