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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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Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than one meal at the phalanstery.
Each canvas is an opened window to the hope of a phalanstery.
Is the phalanstery to be prohibited from capitalizing and lending at interest?
Nothing could be more unlike the phalanstery of the Cour d'Orlans, or the frank, free comradeship of Nohant.
To put up the phalanstery was the biggest job undertaken by the community and it taxed all available resources to the last dollar.
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.

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