Max Nomad [SEP] place of birth
Max Nomad
Max Nomad (1881, Buchach, Halychyna, now Ukraine – 1973) is the pseudonym of Austrian author and educator Maximilian 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 United States.
Biography.
Maximilian Nacht was born in 1881, into a wealthy Jewish family from Buchach, eastern Halychyna, now Ukraine. Before World War I, he lived in Austria and
followed in 1913.
Nacht wrote pro-Soviet articles in the 1920s using the pseudonym 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 of Social Science.
Max Nomad, was influenced by the thought of anarchist Jan Wacław Machajski