{"id":131,"date":"2016-04-26T15:41:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T19:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2016-04-26T15:41:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T19:41:27","slug":"equality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016012\/research\/equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ideal community requires equality. Lack of equality, in Cabet\u2019s mind, presents the biggest barrier in developing utopia.[1]<\/a> \u00a0Cabet believed that the development of the Icarian community would be fueled by the desire to achieve happiness and equality saying, \u201cis it not nature that has given men the same desire to be happy, the same love of equality, the intelligence and the reason <\/em>with which to organize happiness, society, and equality?\u201d[2]<\/a> Human nature, predisposed to happiness, would be willing accept the utopian system of equality.\u00a0 He said \u201call [members] are associates, citizens, equals<\/em> in rights and duties; all share equally the burdens and benefits of the association; all also form but a single family <\/em>whose members are united by ties of fraternity.<\/em>\u201d [3]<\/a> Stemming from the frustration that the ideal of fraternity had been thwarted after the Revolution in France, Cabet and his followers identified strongly with the concept of fraternity and they strove to incorporate it extensively within the community. Cabet emphasized that equality has nothing to do with physical traits, saying,<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>I believe that differences in height, form, strength, etc. in no way prevent Equality in rights, in duties, in happiness, just as the differences between children do not prevent them enjoying the same right to the love of their parents, or as the differences among citizens do not prevent their equality in the eyes of the law and tribunal.\u201d[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

Each member brought a distinct perspective, along with their skills and knowledge, to the community. In Voyage en Icarie, <\/em>Cabet described utopia, saying participants were \u201cprofoundly convinced\u2026that man cannot have happiness without association and equality have joined together in society <\/em>founded on the basis of the most perfect equality.\u201d[5]<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>Cabet\u2019s attempts to create equality stemmed from the reaction he saw in France to the injustices served by the monarchy and from the inspiration he took from English utopias.[6]<\/a> The community\u2019s reaction to the emphasis on equality reaffirms the desire they fostered as a result of the revolution.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Etienne Cabet, \u201cCommunist Creed (1841),\u201d\u00a0in Voices of the Industrial Revolution,<\/em> ed. John Bowditch and Clement Ramsland (The University of Michigan Press, 1961),<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Etienne Cabet, \u201cVoyage en Icarie,\u201d\u00a0in Voices of the Industrial Revolution,<\/em> ed. John Bowditch and Clement Ramsland (The University of Michigan Press, 1961), 146<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Cabet \u201cCommunist Creed (1841),\u201d 148<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Cabet, \u201cVoyage en Icarie,\u201d 146<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Cabet, \u201cVoyage en Icarie,\u201d 146<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> Sutton, \u201cAn American Elysium: The Icarian Communities,\u201d 280<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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