Michael Kácha (6 January 1874 – 12 May 1940) was a Czech anarchist activist, journalist and publisher. He was a founder of the Czech Anarchist Federation and edited numerous publications during the 1900s. He then led the fundamentalist faction of the federation against Bohuslav Vrbenský's proposals to transform it into a political party, but his counter-proposals were voted down. He was arrested several times during During World War I. After the war, he returned to publishing and met the young writer Franz Kafka, who his left-wing magazine Červen. He published his own collected works in 1933,
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Michael Kácha (6 January 1874 – 12 May 1940) was a Czech anarchist activist, journalist and publisher. He was a founder of the Czech Anarchist Federation and edited numerous publications during the 1900s. He then led the fundamentalist faction of the federation against Bohuslav Vrbenský's proposals to transform it into a political party, but his counter-proposals were voted down. He was arrested several times during During World War I. After the war, he returned to publishing and met the young writer Franz Kafka, who his left-wing magazine Červen. He published his own collected works in 1933, seven years before his death at the outbreak of World War II.
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Biography Michael Kácha was born in 1874. He worked as a shoemaker and came to believe in the political philosophy of anarchism, as advocated by Peter Kropotkin. In the early 20th century, the Czech anarchist movement experienced a surge of activity. This process culminated in 1904, with the establishment of the Czech Anarchist Federation by a group of Kropotkinites, including Kácha and Stanislav Kostka Neumann. Anarchist publishing activities also expanded during this time, with Kácha himself publishing the weekly newspaper Práce from 1905 to 1908. He also published a journal of anarchist children's literature, Klíčení (Germination). He also mentored the young anarchist writer Kamill Resler, who remembered him as a father figure. In 1908, the Austro-Hungarian authorities suppressed the anarchist movement, but Czech anarchists soon reorganised around the rising anti-militarist and anti-clericalist movements. Kácha himself returned to publishing, editing the journal Zádruha from 1909 to 1914. By the spring of 1914, the Czech Anarchist Federation had reformed, but it quickly split into two ideologically-opposed factions. The leader of its "realist" faction, Bohuslav Vrbenský, proposed that anarchists organise themselves into a political party. Kácha, as the leader of its "fundamentalist" faction, sharply criticised Vrbenský's programme, which he believed to contradict anarchist…
