What is "pantisocracy"

Pantisocracy \Pan`ti*soc"ra*cy\, n. [Panto- + Gr. ? equal + ? to rule.] A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.

"ideal Utopian community in which all have equal rights," 1794, literally "equal rule of all," from Greek pant-, comb. form of pantos, genitive of pan "all" (see pan-) + isocratia "equality of power" (see isocracy).

n. A utopian social system in which every member participates equally in government.

Pantisocracy (from the Greek "πάν" and "ισοκρατία" meaning "equal or level government by/for all") was a utopian scheme devised in 1794 by the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey for an egalitarian community. It is a system of government where all rule equally. They originally intended to establish such a community on the banks of the Susquehanna River in the United States, but by 1795 Southey had doubts about the viability of this and proposed moving the project to Wales. The two men were unable to agree on the location, causing the project to collapse.