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phalanstery|ˈfælænstərɪ|
[Anglicized form of F. phalanstère (mod.L. type *phalansterium).]
a. In Fourier's scheme for the reorganization of society, A building or set of buildings occupied by a phalanx or socialistic community; hence, such a community itself, numbering about 1,800 persons, living together as one family, and holding property in common.
1846Knickerbocker XXVIII. 16 And are all your slaves productive workers? This is contemplated, I believe, in all the Phalansteries of Unitative Associationists. a1850Marg. Fuller Life Without (1860) 148 Visions of phalansteries in every park. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. II. ii. 26 One of our purposes was to erect a Phalanstery..after Fourier,.. where the great and general family should have its abiding-place. 1882Brace Gesta Christi 415 Christianity..has no sympathy with Socialism..in..its methods of dividing the returns from labour, or its phalansteries or communities. 1963V. Nabokov Gift iv. 235 Let us dream of the phalanstery living in a palace: 1,800 souls—and all happy!
attrib.1884G. Allen Strange Stories 301 They sat together in a corner of the beautiful phalanstery garden.
b. transf. Applied allusively to associations or groups of persons, or the places where they dwell.
1850Kingsley Alt. Locke viii, Every room..held its family, or its group of families—a phalanstery of all the fiends. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Land Wks. (Bohn) II. 15 England is a huge phalanstery, where all that man wants is provided within the precinct. 1883Hyndman Hist. Basis Socialism xiii. 449 The tendency now exhibiting itself to turn workhouses into wholesome phalansteries. |