Anti-authoritarian Anti-authoritarian Aeolipile Anti-authoritarianism is opposition to Authoritarianism, which is defined as "concentration of power in a leader or an Elite not Constitutionally responsible to the people" or the Doctrine that advocates such Absolutism in rule, as in Autocracy, Despotism, Dictatorship, and Totalitarianism.

Anti-authoritarianism is not opposition to Government per se, but opposition to totalitarian forms of government.