Josep Llunas i Pujals (January 30, 1852–May 23, 1905) was a
Catalan
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libertarian
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and
free-thinker
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from
Spain
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.
He was a
typesetter
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by profession, but he also studied music and singing and was a theatrical director. Of special significance in this regard was his role as secretary of the ''Catalan Athenaeum of the Working Classes'', a
proletarian
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cultural center which promoted a type of scientific anarchism. Llunas believed that the growth of science would promote social equality.
[''Historia de la Cultura Catalana''. Edicions 62, Barcelona.]
Major works
* Estudios filosófico-sociales (1882)
* La revolució: poema en tres cants (1886)
* El Ariete Socialista Internacional (1887)
* Qüestions socials (1891)
* Los partits socialistes espanyols (1892)
* La Ley y la clase obrera (1893)
See also
*
Mutualism
*
Anarcho-Collectivism
Collectivist anarchism, also called anarchist collectivism and anarcho-collectivism, Buckley, A. M. (2011). ''Anarchism''. Essential Libraryp. 97 "Collectivist anarchism, also called anarcho-collectivism, arose after mutualism." . is an anarchis ...
References
Bibliography
* J. Santasusagna. ''Reus i els reusencs en el Renaixement de Catalunya''. Reus, 1982.
* Autores varios. ''Enciclopèdia Catalana''. Barcelona, edicions 62, 1997.
* Autores varios. ''Història de la cultura catalana''. Barcelona, edicions 62.
* Iñiguez Miguel. ''Esbozo de una enciclopedia histórica del anarquismo''. Madrid, Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo, 2001.
External links
International Institute of Social History: Barcelona 1893-1897
1852 births
1905 deaths
Collectivist anarchists
Libertarian socialists
People from Barcelona
Spanish anarchists
Typesetters
Print journalists
Spanish journalists
Anarchist writers
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