Name Max Nomad | Role Author | |
Died April 18, 1973, New York City, New York, United States Books Aspects of Revolt, Rebels and Renegades Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
Max Nomad (1881, Buchach, Halychyna, now Ukraine – 1973) is the pseudonym of Austrian author and educator Max(imilian) Nacht. In his youth he had espoused militant anarchism and in the 1920s he was a follower of the Bolshevik Revolution. From the 1940s he was for many years a politics lecturer in the USA.
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Life
Born in 1881, into a wealthy Jewish family from Buchach, eastern Halychyna, now Ukraine, he was influenced by the thought of anarchist Jan Waclaw Machajski. Before World War I, he lived in Austria and attended the University of Vienna. Max, his older brother Siegfried Shlomo Nacht (born in Vienna in 1878; died in 1956) and, sometimes, Senna Hoy in Zurich from 1903 to 1907 edited five volumes of the militant journal Der Weckruf (The Alarm) Siegfried, later Stephen, Nacht emigrated to the United States of America at the end of 1912, Max followed in 1913. He wrote pro-soviet articles in the 1920s using the pen-name Max Nomad. He distanced himself from Stalinism in 1929. Writing in Scribner's Magazine in 1934, he coined the phrase capitalism without capitalists regarding the Soviet Union.
A Guggenheim Fellow in 1937, he became a lecturer in politics and history at New York University, the New School for Social Research and the Rand School.