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

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

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 Spargo, John

The system of Louis Blanc or that of Cabet?

From Anarchism and Socialism by Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich

The old schemes of Babœuf and the first French revolution hardly existed in 1848, but were replaced by two forms of communism; the theoretic or “Icarian” of Cabet, and the practical of Louis Blanc.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey