You changed this article so I m going to take it up on this board The article says The first modern author to have published an essay explicitly advocating the absence of government was Edmund Burke in A Vindication of Natural Society 1756 That statement is 100 correct It doesn t say Burke advocated the absence of government merely that he wrote an essay advocating the absence of government If you want to add that most today believe it was an extremely subtle satire go for it That s how Wikipedia works You think something s left out you add it As for why you believe the statements of a politician running for office Er that work was a satire yeah that s it over an anonymously published essay that s between you and God or Athena as the case may be I ll revert and add your concern