In a July 24 Perspective article, Mark Dalton mistakenly compares anarchists to tea party opponents of raising the debt ceiling. This is as much a disservice to members of Congress as it is to anarchists and the theories of anarchism.

Anarchy means no rulers, not no rules. Anarchism is the body of political thought and writing calling for an end to authoritarian centralized rule, not to government. An anarchist society is a society in which the people enforce common rules, rather than giving over their power to a central authority.