"[cabet (etienne)] - Journey To Icaria. At The Office Of The Populaire, 1846, In Contemporary Binding."
[CABET (Etienne)] - Voyage en Icarie. Paris, Au Bureau du Populaire, 1846; in-8, VI-600 pp., contemporary navy blue half-calf bindings, smooth spine, marbled edges. Etienne Cabet, born in Dijon in 1788 and died in 1856 in Saint Louis (Missouri), French political thinker, was the first to advocate a form of Christian communism which Marx and Engels, attached to scientific socialism, would oppose. For Cabet, the poor organization of society is entirely due to inequality. Cabet dreams of a society where men would be the disciples and the continuators of the first Christians and of Jesus Christ since they renounced individual property. Voyage en Icarie is a plan to found an ideal city according to the precepts of communist utopia. Second edition.