Agustà Chalaux i de SubirÃ
Agustí Chalaux i de Subirà ( born July 19, 1911 in Sant Genís dels Agudells, † April 26, 2006 in Barcelona), a Catalan scholar who has designed a political, economic and social model, the abuse of power, poverty and corruption was so far to reduce possible.
Biography
On July 19, 1911, he was born in Sant Genís dels Agudells, then a village of 15 inhabitants, now a neighborhood in the district of Horta- in Barcelona. His father was a French industrialist who owned a wool dyeing in the Almogàvers street in Barcelona. His mother came from the Subirà family, traditional Catalan Carlists. At four years old he entered the Montessori school, one of the first in Europe. At age nine, he was sent to France, to go to school there. He remained there until his High School in Toulon.
At 14, he met the banker Horace Finaly know who greatly influenced him in the next 14 years and advised him to study chemistry. That did Agustí Chalaux then in the University of Mulhouse. He learned there know the scientific methodology that is applied in physics and in chemistry; there was in him the desire with similar precision and rigor to unstersuchen social and economic phenomena.
He came in contact me political groups, first katalanistischen libertarian later. The beginning of the Spanish Civil War he experienced in Barcelona, where he continued his studies and at the same time managed his father's factory. This was neither nationalized nor collectivized, but he worked with the anarchists, the " Xaló " called him.
In 1939 he went into exile in Paris, where he witnessed the outbreak of the Second World War. He was drafted and went to the artillery officer school. After the German occupation demobilized him the Petain government, after which he continued his studies.
He returned in 1945 to Catalonia back. He was an avid reader of La Semana Internacional ( " The International Week " ), Joan Bardina issued in Chile, whose thinking also influenced him.
In 1956, when the Soviet Union occupied Hungary, he recognized by its own account, that violence is an inappropriate means to achieve political objectives.
His work as a chemist, he gave up in 1968. He participated in the University of al Carrer ( "Street University ") that ( " Institute of Folk Culture " ) was institutionalized later than Institut de Cultura Popular.
At his suggestion Lluís Maria Xirinacs built together with other people on an organization devoted to the study and dissemination of his then new political, economic and social model devoted himself. On October 25, 1984 the Centre d' Estudis Joan Bardina, founded and based in the former his father's factory.
He published several books and memoranda on its programmatic ideas.
Agustí Chalaux died on 26 April 2006 in Barcelona.
Works
- Introducció al sistema general ( "Introduction to the ruling system " ), with Magdalena Grau Figueras. September 11, 1983.
- Una eina by a construir la pau ("How peace can be established " ), July 1, 1984.
- Assaig sobre moneda mercat, i Societat ( " lesson on money, markets and society " ) with Magdalena Grau Figueras, 1984.
- Moneda de Telematica i ESTRATEGIA mercat ( " Telematic money and market strategies " ), with Magdalena Grau Figueras, 1985.
- Glossari de termes inequívocs ( "Glossary unambiguous terms" ), 1986.
- Disseny de Civisme ( " draft citizenship " ), 1988.
- La plutarquia i altres Relats ( " The plutocracy and Other Tales" ), 1991.
- Martí Olivella Solé: El poder del diner ( "The Power of Money" ), price Joaquim Xirau, 1991.
- Sistema General: " Economia i Societat " ( " The ruling system: Economy and Society" ) with Lluís Maria Xirinacs, 6th December 1996.
- El capitalisme comunitari ( " socialized capitalism " ), February 12, 2000.
- Història del capitalisme comunitari ( "History of socialized capitalism " ), February 17, 2001.