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

Cabet, who had remained in France, had more than one judicial investigation to undergo in consequence, but was honourably acquitted.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

Among modern communists who are to be distinguished from the more ancient, especially by the industrial coloring given to their theories, Cabet, Voyage en Icarie, 1840, II, holds a very prominent place.

From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor

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

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

It appealed strongly to the discontented masses, and it is said that by 1847 Cabet had no less than four hundred thousand adherents among the workers of France.

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