1. Joan Montseny i Carret, who wrote under the pseudonym Federico Urales, was a Catalan anarchist activist and journalist from Spain.
11 Facts About Joan Montseny
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Joan Montseny was originally a cooper and led a union of coopers in the late 1880s.
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Joan Montseny worked on Alejandro Lerroux's El Progreso before founding the periodicals La Revista Blanca and Tierra y Libertad.
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The success of these publications led to relationships with notable intellectuals, though Joan Montseny was forced away from the papers in 1905 and 1904, respectively.
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Joan Montseny defended Francisco Ferrer in the Morral affair and wrote books for Ferrer's Escuela Moderna, including the Castilian novel, Sembrando Flores.
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Joan Montseny campaigned for social revolution by starting the weekly magazine El Luchador.
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Joan Montseny followed an individualistic anarchism with no specific revolutionary program.
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Joan Montseny is a prominent example of the anarchism without adjectives school of thought.
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Joan Montseny supported but did not join the Federacion Anarquista Iberica during the Second Republic.
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Joan Montseny nevertheless influenced the CNT as a member of the Popular Front in 1936 and through his daughter, Federica Montseny, who served in Francisco Largo Caballero's cabinet.
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In 1891, Joan Montseny married Teresa Mane, known by pen name Soledad Gustavo.