Isaac Puente Amestoy (3 June 1896 – 1 September 1936), born in Las Carreras near

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, was a

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physician and Spanish anarchist of a strong anarchist communist bent, who adhered to concerns around birth control, hygiene and sexuality. He promoted

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, and was active in the

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(CNT). He is best known for his pamphlet ''El comunismo libertario'' ("Libertarian Communism") published in 1932. This came to be the adopted programme of the CNT at the May 1936 Congress in Zaragoza, just prior to the

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. Puente was an important propagandist of anarcho-naturism,Isaac Puente. ''El Comunismo Libertario y otras proclamas insurreccionales y naturistas.''
/ref> was a militant of both the CNT

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trade union and

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. He published the book ''El Comunismo Libertario y otras proclamas insurreccionales y naturistas'' (en:''Libertarian Communism and other insurrectionary and naturist proclaims'') in 1933, which sold around 100,000 copies. Puente was a doctor who approached his medical practice from a naturist point of view. He saw naturism as an integral solution for the working classes, alongside Neo-Malthusianism, and believed it concerned the living being while anarchism addressed the social being."Y complementarlos puesto que se ocupan de aspectos distintos, –el uno redime al ser vivo, el otro al ser socia
Isaac Puente. ''El Comunismo Libertario y otras proclamas insurreccionales y naturistas.''
/ref> He believed capitalist societies endangered the well-being of humans from both a socioeconomic and sanitary viewpoint, and promoted

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alongside naturism as a solution. An active militant, he was involved in a failed uprising in Aragon and

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in 1933 for which he suffered repression. Later, Puente was killed by Nationalist forces during the

after being arrested and taken to

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and later executed in

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in 1936. The Isaac Puente battalion was named after him.

References

External links

Biography at the CNT site
(in Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Puente, Isaac 1896 births 1936 deaths People from Abanto y Ciérbana-Abanto Zierbena Politicians from the Basque Country (autonomous community) Spanish anarchists Spanish anti-capitalists Anarcho-communists Confederación Nacional del Trabajo members Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction) Green anarchists Naturism in Spain People executed by Francoist Spain