Anarchismis peculiarly difficult to relate to this or to any other general argument. It is a word which embraces a number of very different theories about the relationship of man to society, often asserting that he has been brutalized by government but will be liberated or cleansed when government is overthrown. Anarchist theories are usually concerned with politics and society but they are always occupied with the problem of authority and they have often been driven to propose solutions to the economic problems which their general theories illustrate, so they often concern themselveswith work. Anarchist theory also provides a foundation for a great deal of the contemporary reaction to the official ideology of work, to what has come to be known as the counter-culture .