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.

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

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

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 remainder followed Cabet to the deserted Mormon town of Nauvoo, Illinois, where vacant houses offered immediate shelter and where they enjoyed an interval of prosperity.

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

In this novel Cabet follows closely the method of More, and describes "Icaria" as "a Promised Land, an Eden, an Elysium, a new terrestrial Paradise."

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

Cabet accepted Owen's advice and called for volunteers to form the "advance guard" of settlers, the number responding being pitifully, almost ludicrously, small.

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