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Isaac Puente

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Isaac Puente Amestoy (June 3 1896, Abanto y Ciérvana, in Vizcaya1936, probably in Burgos province) was a Basque physician and Spanish anarchist, active in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT). He held Malthusian views, and was an advocate of eugenics - which he best saw carried out through increased hygiene, an end to prostitution, and Feminism.

He is best known for his famous and influential pamphlet El comunismo libertario ("Libertarian Communism") published in 1932. Puente was killed by Francisco Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War.