Maximilien Rubel
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Maximilien Rubel (10 October 1905, in Chernivtsi – 28 February 1996, in Paris) was an Austrian Marxist historian, humanist, and council communist.
Rubel was educated in law and philosophy in
In his encounters with Marxist members of the resistance movement in this milieu Rubel was reputedly astonished by the incoherence and confusion that surrounded Karl Marx and so-called "scientific" socialism. In difficult circumstances Rubel then set to work to gain a thorough understanding of Marx's life and work. It was Rubel who originally coined the term "marxologie" to refer to a systematic scholarly approach to the understanding of Marx and Marxism, which he saw as quite distinct.
After the war, Rubel continued with his research, first publishing on Marx in 1946, and receiving a
In the 1950s a political discussion circle gathered around Rubel, which eventually adopted the title Council Communist Group. It included the Vietnamese former Trotskyist
Selected works
- Marx, Life and Works (New York: Macmillan, 1980)
- Non-market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (New York: Macmillan, 1987) edited with John Crump
- Marx Without Myth: A Chronological Study of his Life and Work (New York: Harper & Row, 1975) written with Margaret Manale
External links
- Maximilien Rubel Internet archive
- Maximilien Rubel biography on libcom.org history
- A text about Rubel
- (in French) Maximilien Rubel on La Bataille socialiste
References
- ^ "Maximilien Rubel: Anti-Bolshevik Marxist". worldsocialism.org. Socialist Party of Great Britain. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
- ^ Ngo Van, In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary (Oakland CA: AK Press) pp. 201–203