Cabet

American  

[ka-be] / kaˈbɛ /

noun

1. Étienne 1788–1856, French socialist who established a utopian community in the U.S. (in Illinois) called Icaria: became U.S. citizen 1854.

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Example Sentences

Deeply scarred by the 1930s Depression, politicians, labor leaders and intellectuals adopted the slogan of 19th century French Utopian Socialist Etienne Cabet: "Nothing is impossible for a government that wants the good of its citizens."

From Time Magazine Archive

"There's a French element there, the remnants of the Icarians—a colony of Communists under Cabet," the doctor explained.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various

The leading exponents of this Communism of the workers were Wilhelm Weitling, in Germany, and Étienne Cabet, in France.

From Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by Spargo, John

Though educated for the bar, Cabet devoted himself to social and political reform.

From Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making by Orth, Samuel Peter

So, for example, Communism as taught by Cabet, Dezamy, Weitling, and others is a dogmatic abstraction....

From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Beer, M.