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

I would rather live under the feet of the Czar than in those states of perfectibility imagined by Fourier and Cabet, if I might choose my 'pis aller.'

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

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 Orth, Samuel Peter

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

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 Orth, Samuel P.