Ralph Anspach is a retired American professor from San Francisco State University who created the game Anti-Monopoly. San Francisco State University is a branch of the California State University system. ... Anti-Monopoly is a board game made by San Francisco State University Professor Ralph Anspach, in response to Monopoly. ...
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Go to Court, Go Directly to Court - article from the Washington Free Press
In the original 1974 version the board is "monopolized" at the beginning of the game, and players compete to return the state of the board to a free market system.
In 1982, after nine years of legal battles, Anspach won a trademark lawsuit in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Anspach uses the Anti-Monopoly name under a license from Hasbro (as is stated in his website's legal disclaimers).
Anspach, a 72-year-old Redwood City resident, was among some 3,500 volunteers, Jews and non-Jews, who between late 1947 and mid-1948 left their lives and families behind to join Machal and battle for Israel's birth and survival.
Anspach, who was raised in Zionist youth groups, had escaped from Germany in 1938 and established a life in the United States.
The next thing Anspach knew, he was contacted by an organization called Land and Labor for Palestine, whose stated aim was sending volunteers to Israel to replace agriculturalists occupied with army duty.
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