"Man was born free, yet everywhere he is in chains..." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau One of the first overview is given of anarchism is outlined in the opening line of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's text Social Contract written in 1792. Various terms are often ascribed to the anarchist ideology, like chaos, violence throughout a community and lack of moral obligations. After a close examination of anarchism, it becomes evident that there is more to it than what most people would think. As a start up point, is the fact that anarchism has numerous sub-groups. It's a far more complex ideology from what it's considered to be. Another key fact is that anarchism overlaps with two other significant political ideologies, which are socialism and liberalism. This demonstrates the existence of similarities between the three political ideologies and the level of complication anarchism holds. This paper will discuss the shared ideas and goals between anarchism, socialism and liberalism and despite this fact, how anarchism still manages to have essential values exclusive to itself. Before delving deeper into what the different anarchist sub-groups represent, there must be given a definition of what anarchism is. Various types of sources have stated that giving a definition of this ideology is difficult however Andrew Heywood has provided such. In his work he defines anarchism as the "central belief that political authority in all its forms, and especially in the form of the state, is both evil and unnecessary" (Heywood,2007, p175). A shared idea of all anarchists is the view of the state as a tool for oppression. Drawing from this statement, it's evident that all anarchists support the idea of eliminating the state as an institution. Controversial to the widespread idea that anarchists are violent and pessimistic, they put great faith in human nature. According to anarchists beliefs, through cooperation, unity is created, which results in harmony between human beings, therefore the state is seen as irrelevant from an anarchist point of view. The point at which anarchism begins to split into sub-groups is when the economical aspect is taken in to account. Some left anarchists like Peter Kropotkin, support the idea of anarcho communism. From another point of view Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Michael Bakunin find collectivist anarchism as a better way of dealing with politics and this way it becomes clear how anarchism is split into ideas of mutualism and anarcho syndicalism. Considering the middle of the anarchist spectrum the libertarian, representing scholars are Josiah Warren, Lysander Spooner and William Godwin. Still there are other forms of anarchism like the individualist anarchist on the right which is supported by thinkers like Murray Ro