Miguel Giménez Igualada (1888, Iniesta, Spain – 1973, Mexico) was a Spanish

individualist anarchist Individualist anarchism or anarcho-individualism is a collection of anarchist currents that generally emphasize the individual and their will over external determinants such as groups, society, traditions, and ideological systems. Individuali ...

writer also known as Miguel Ramos Giménez and Juan de Iniesta.

Life

In his youth, Igualada engaged in illegalist activities. He unsuccessfully proposed the creation of a Spanish ''

Union of Egoists A "union of egoists" () was first expounded by the Egoist philosopher Max Stirner in '' The Ego and Its Own''. A union of egoists is understood as a voluntary and non-systematic association which Stirner proposed in contradistinction to the sta ...

'', and from the 1920s was a member of the

anarcho-syndicalist Anarcho-syndicalism is an anarchist organisational model that centres trade unions as a vehicle for class conflict. Drawing from the theory of libertarian socialism and the practice of syndicalism, anarcho-syndicalism sees trade unions as both ...

Confederación Nacional del Trabajo The (CNT; ) is a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist national trade union center, trade union confederation. Founded in 1910 in Barcelona from groups brought together by the trade union ''Solidaridad Obrera (historical union), Solidaridad Obrera'', ...

. Among the many means of earning a living he was a street vendor, taxi driver, gardener, manager of a sugar plantation and rationalist teacher at the Libertarian Atheneum at Las Ventas, Madrid. Between October 1937 and February 1938 he edited the individualist anarchist magazine ''Nosotros''. Igualada was strongly influenced by

Max Stirner Johann Kaspar Schmidt (; 25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known professionally as Max Stirner (; ), was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is oft ...

. Through his writings he promoted Stirner within Spain, and published the fourth Spanish edition of Stirner's book, ''

The Ego and Its Own ''The Ego and Its Own'' (), also known as ''The Unique and Its Property'', is an 1844 work by German philosopher Max Stirner. It presents a post-Hegelian critique of Christianity and traditional morality on one hand; and on the other, humanism, ...

'', writing its preface. In 1968 he published a treatise on Stirner, dedicated to the memory of fellow anarchist

Émile Armand E. Armand (March 26, 1872 – February 19, 1963), pseudonym of Ernest-Lucien Juin, was an influential French individualist anarchist at the beginning of the 20th century and also a dedicated free love/polyamory, intentional community, and pacifi ...

, and wrote and published the tract, ''Anarquismo''. Igualada later lived in Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico, and was present at the First Congress of the Mexican Anarchist Federation in 1945.

Works

* , 1944 * , 1946 * , 1946 * , ''Los caminos del hombre'', 1961 * , 1968 * , ''Salmos'', ''Stirner'', 1968 * , 1968

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1888 births 1973 deaths Anarcho-pacifists Confederación Nacional del Trabajo members Egoist anarchists Individualist anarchists People from the Province of Cuenca Spanish anti-capitalists Spanish expatriates in Mexico {{Spain-activist-stub

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