Agustí Chalaux i de Subirà

Agustí Chalaux i de Subirà (Sant Genís dels Agudells, 1911, Barcelona 2006), was a Spanish thinker, who designed a political, economic and social model meant to reduce as much as possible the misuse of power, extreme poverty and corruption.

He was born at Sant Genís dels Agudells (Catalonia, Spain), which was then a hamlet with 15 inhabitants near Barcelona, on 19 July 1911.

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War he lived in Barcelona, where he carried on his observations and studies, while working at the same time in the family factory, which was never nationalized nor collectivized, teaming up with the trade-unions, who called him «Xaló».

He was mobilized in the Artillery School for officers, and after the German occupation of the country, the French government, at whose head was Pétain, demobilized him and he resumed his studies.

He was a regular reader of «La Semana Internacional» («The International week»), a magazine published in Chile by Joan Bardina, who also had an influence on him.