Coleridge
dreams, in a letter to Southey (1794), of a time when “the pure system of
pantisocracy shall have aspheterized.” He explains this coinage as the joining
of two Greek words that mean no private property and that “we really wanted
such a word.” We did? Googling ‘aspheterized’ this August all meaningful hits
refer back to Coleridge. Scrabble Word Solver states: ‘No definition
available’. During the French Revolution our would-be communists pant for their
pantisocracy, a system of government of their own invention, where all rule
equally. But they couldn’t agree on a location. Susquehanna? Wales? Their
utopian plans collapsed.
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