Buchach
Buchach ( uk, Бучач; pl, Buczacz; yi, בעטשאָטש, Betshotsh or (Bitshotsh); he, בוצ'אץ' ''Buch'ach''; german: Butschatsch; tr, Bucaş) is a city located on the Strypa River (a tributary of the Dniester) in Chortkiv Raion of Te ...
,
Halychyna
Galicia ()"Galicia" '' Ukraine – 1973) is the pseudonym of Austrian author and educator Maximilian Nacht. ' at International Institute of Social History In his youth he had espoused militant
anarchism
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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.
Background
Maximilian Nacht was born in 1881, into a wealthy Jewish family from Buchach, eastern
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in Zürich from 1903 to 1907 edited five volumes of the militant journal ''Der Weckruf'' (The Alarm). In 1908 he was living in Cracow, where he became politically involved with
Jan Wacław Machajski
Jan Wacław Machajski (27 December 1866 in Busko-Zdrój – 19 February 1926 in Moscow), pseudonym A. Wolski (A. Vol'ski) (often corrupted in Russian as Makhaev), was a Polish revolutionary whose methodology drew from both anarchism and Marxism ...
in setting up ''Workers' Conspiracy''. Siegfried, later Stephen, emigrated to the United States of America at the end of 1912, Max followed in 1913.
Nacht wrote pro-Soviet articles in the 1920s using the pseudonym "Max Nomad." He distanced himself from
Stalinism
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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
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...
New School for Social Research
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I remain a lone-wolf philosophical anarchist whose sympathies go out to the poorest of the poor struggling for more and more of the good things of life. But I feel akin only to those rebellious, but politically unattached intellectuals who dream of justice and an equal chance for everybody, but know, as I do, that, given the eternal recurrence of predatory elites, and the incurable ignorance and gullibility of the masses, a privileged and educated minority will always rule and exploit the uneducated majority.Coombs, Anne, ''Sex and Anarchy: The Life and Death of the Sydney Push'', Penguin Books Australia, 1996; pg. 56.
Works
* ''Die revolutionäre Bewegung in Rußland''. Neues Leben, Berlin 1902
* ''Rebellen-Lieder'' Arnold Roller (Siegfried Nacht), Max Nacht (eds,.), 1906
* ''Rebels and Renegades''. New York 1932. 430 pp.
* ''Apostles of Revolution''. Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1939. 467 pp.
* ''A Skeptic's Political Dictionary and Handbook for the Disenchanted''. New York 1953. 171 pp.
* ''Aspects of Revolt''. New York 959 311 pp.
* ''Political Heretics from Plato to Mao Tse-Tung''. Ann Arbor 1963
* ''Dreamers, Dynamiters and Demagogues: Reminiscences''. New York
964
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Events
Byzantine Empire
* Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor Nikephoros II continues the reconquest of south-eastern Anatoli ...
251 pp.
* ''The Anarchist Tradition and Other Essays''. 1967. 398 pp.
* ''Masters--old and new'' 1979
* ''White collars & horny hands: the revolutionary thought of Waclaw Machajski'' 1983