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What is a phalanstery?

What is a phalanstery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An association or community organized on the plan of Charles Fourier, with living space divided hierarchically and higher pay for those carrying out unpopular tasks.
  2. The dwelling house of a Fourierite community.
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The central part of the Palace or Phalanstery ought to be appropriated to peaceful uses, and contain the dining-halls, halls for finance, libraries, study, etc.
Each canvas is an opened window to the hope of a phalanstery.
Nothing could be more unlike the phalanstery of the Cour d'Orlans, or the frank, free comradeship of Nohant.
Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than one meal at the phalanstery.
In 1840, LĂ©onie d'Aunet returned crowned with the glory of her adventure in the glacial Spitsbergen, while Louise Bachelet traversed war-torn Paraguay to join a small French society organised as a phalanstery in Brazil.
All tasks become tiresome at some point, however, so each member of the phalanstery would have several occupations, moving from one to another as his interest waned and waxed.

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