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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Cabet

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

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 M. Beer

Bakunin used it in the congress at Berne in 1868, to oppose it to the communistic régime of Cabet.

From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth

Cabet thereupon framed a constitution and sought the means of founding a real Icaria.

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

The original Icarian Community, founded by Cabet at Nauvoo, not only tolerated but required marriage; and as it soon came to an end, its fate helps the anti-marriage theory.

From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

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