Maximilien Rubel

Maximilien Rubel ( born October 10, 1905 in Chernivtsi, † February 28, 1996 in Paris) was a French sociologist and Council Communist Austrian origin.

Rubles studied law and philosophy in Vienna and Chernivtsi, where he was under the influence of the social philosopher Max Adler. In 1931 he moved to Paris to continue his studies at the Sorbonne, and received an MA in 1934. In 1937 he became a French citizen. During the German occupation of France, he was persecuted as a Jew and a political activist. Until 1945 he was a member of the small Groupe revolutionnaire prolétarien, and translated leaflets, which were sent to German soldiers. From 1948 rubles was employed at the Centre d' études sociologique of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, where he became professor emeritus in 1970 as Maître de recherche honoraire. In 1959 he founded the journal Etudes de marxologie, and participated in the 1962 appearing Cahiers de discussion pour le Socialisme of conseils with. Rubles was a Marxist humanist. He coined the term Marxologie for the systematic investigation of Karl Marx and Marxism. Rubles represented against the majority of scholars, the thesis that Marx had been decisively influenced by Baruch Spinoza.

Rubles rejected the real existing socialism Leninist character. The current importance of Karl Marx, he saw not primarily in his scientific theories, but in ethics, and his radical critique of social institutions.