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8 - Etienne Cabet and the Icarian Movement in France and the United States

from Early Socialisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Christopher H. Johnson
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

‘A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism.’1 Introducing the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels cast communism as an ill-defined force that allowed ‘all the Powers in Europe’ to tar all political opposition with its stigma. It was therefore ‘high time … to meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.’ But communism was already much more than that.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 188 - 213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Agulhon, Maurice, The Republican Experiment, 1848–1852, trans. Janet Lloyd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).Google Scholar
Angrand, Pierre, Etienne Cabet et la République de 1848 (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1948).Google Scholar
Beecher, Jonathan, Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).Google Scholar
Cabet, Etienne, History and Constitution of the Icarian Community, trans. Thomas Teakle (New York: AMS Press, 1975).Google Scholar
Cabet, Etienne, Travels in Icaria, trans. Leslie J. Roberts, with introduction by Robert Sutton (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003).Google Scholar
Cordillot, Michel, Utopistes et exilés du Nouveau Monde. Des Français aux Etats-Unis de 1848 à la Commune (Paris: Vendémiaire, 2013).Google Scholar
Crétinon, Jean-François, and Lacour, François-Marie, Voyage en Icarie. Deux ouvriers viennois aux Etats-Unis en 1855, ed. Rude, F. (Grenoble: Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1980).Google Scholar
Fourn, François, Etienne Cabet ou le temps de l’utopie (Paris: Vendémiaire, 2014).Google Scholar
Garno, Diana, Citoyennes and Icaria (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005).Google Scholar
Johnson, Christopher H., Utopian Communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians, 1839–1851 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974).Google Scholar
Rancière, Jacques, The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-Century France, trans. John Drury, with introduction by Donald Reid (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989).Google Scholar
Sutton, Robert P., Les Icariens: The Utopian Dream in Europe and America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994).Google Scholar

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