About “Voyage en Icarie”
The Voyage to Icaria is a 1840 novel by Étienne Cabet that presents a communistic utopia. Cabet created a detailed vision of this society and sought to put it into practice by forming a constitution for an actual Icaria. His followers, known as the Icarians, established egalitarian communes in America between 1848 and 1898. The book is mentioned by Karl Marx in a 1843 letter, where he contrasts its idealistic vision with the practical needs of building socialism in Germany. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 1840