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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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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

The confluence of these two streams of Communist propaganda represented by Weitling and Cabet constituted the real Communist "movement" of 1840-1847.

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

Cabet now hastened to France, and on appeal obtained reversion of his sentence in 1851.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

As a result, Cabet, in 1856, was expelled from his own Icaria!

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

Instead of classing St. Simon and Fourier with him, we should name Ballou and Cabet as his proper compeers.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey

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