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pantisocracy

British  
/ ˌpæntɪˈsɒkrəsɪ /

noun

  1. a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal

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Etymology

Origin of pantisocracy

C18 (coined by Robert Southey ): from Greek, from panto- + isos equal + -cracy

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You and I have often talked of Southey’s and Coleridge’s pantisocracy—I believe the time has come for some such an enterprise. 

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Is this Coleridge and Southey again with their Pantisocracy and Susquehanna Paradise?

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He came, we must remember, half-way between the Pantisocracy of Coleridge and his friends and the still cruder vagaries of our young intellectuals.

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It would take us too far to consider how the sentimental Pantisocracy of the youthful Lake Poets coincided with the direct influence of Rousseau.

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This is as true of nutty little proposals by discontented geniuses--like the idea of communalist, rural "pantisocracy" put forward by Shelley, Coleridge and others in their youth--as it is of paranoid, pseudo-collectivist systems that take over whole societies and make huge contributions to the sum of human misery, like Stalinism.

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