consociate

Alcott and Lane also disagreed on definitions of the consociate family.

"The consociate family", as Fruitlands residents referred to themselves, wished to achieve complete freedom by separating entirely from the world economy.

By 1843, the Alcott family moved, along with six other members of the Consociate Family, to the Utopian Fruitlands community for a brief interval in 1843-1844.

Fruitlands residents, who called themselves "the consociate family", wished to separate themselves from the world economy by refraining from trade, having no personal property, and not using hired labor.

Some of his failures were noble (parents pulled their children out of his school because he had an African-American pupil), others perhaps laughable (the Consociate Family at Fruitlands, and their intense discussions of theoretical transcendentalism, while the farm failed around them).