Étienne Cabet
Étienne Cabet (born January 1, 1788 in Dijon, died November 8, 1856 in Saint Louis) - French theoretician of early socialism. Curriculum vitae
From 1819 he was associated with the movement of the Carbonari, 1833 he founded the republican journal "La Populaire", 1834-1848 he lived and worked in London. In England, he wrote most of his works, including Historie populaire de Révolution française de 1789 à 1830 (Vol. 1-4 1839-1844) and containing the description of the "perfect system" Voyage en Icarie (1840), written under the influence of Thomas More, Robert Owen and Morelly. In 1841 he published Comment je suis communiste, et mon Credo communiste, and in 1846 Le vrai christianisme and La femme .... From 1848 he lived in the USA, where in Nauvoo in Illinois he founded an exemplary community, Ikaria, to be the actualization of his communist ideals, however his experiment failed because opposition to his arbitrary leadership appeared in the commune. Cabet's views are an attempt to combine communism and a vision of a return to original Christianity and the implementation of evangelical principles. He called the system he proposed communism; he designed it with the conviction that the highest values are equality and brotherhood.
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