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Jan 01, 1788 Dijon, Bourgogne Franche Comté, France Died on 09 Nov 1856 (aged 68)
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About Étienne Cabet
- Étienne Cabet (French: [kab?]; January 1, 1788 – November 9, 1856) was a French philosopher and utopian socialist who founded the Icarian movement.
- Cabet became the most popular socialist advocate of his day, with a special appeal to artisans who were being undercut by factories, and his communitarian ideals (based on the Golden Rule) later influenced Karl Marx and others.
- Cabet published Voyage en Icarie in French in 1839 (and in English in 1840 as Travels in Icaria), in which he proposed replacing capitalist production with workers' cooperatives.
- Recurrent problems with French officials (a treason conviction in 1834 resulted in five years' exile in England), led him to emigrate to the United States in 1848.
- Cabet founded utopian communities in Texas and Illinois, but was again undercut, this time by recurring feuds with his followers.
