Max Wexler
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| Born |
November 4, 1870 Iaşi |
| Died | May 14, 1917 (aged 46) Bacău |
| Other names | Argeşanu, Luca Alexandru, Gentilis, Germanicus, Neuschatz, I. Moldoveanu, Ieşeanu |
| Occupation | accountant |
Max Wexler (also spelled Vexler or Wechsler, November 4, 1870 – May 14, 1917) was a Romanian socialist activist and journalist, regarded as one of the main Marxist theorist of the early Romanian workers' movement. Active in the first Romanian socialist party, the Romanian Social Democratic Workers' Party, he became dissatisfied with the party's passivity and its failure to openly support political rights for the Romanian Jews, initiating a separate Jewish socialist group. Following the party's demise, he was one of the main activists for the revival of the socialist movement in Iaşi, introducing to Marxism many future leaders of the Romanian socialist parties. Sympathetic to the 1917 February Revolution, he was arrested after attempting to gain the support of Russian soldiers present in the country during World War I. Wexler was assassinated in custody shortly after, with the Romanian authorities suppressing any formal enquiry into his death.
Max Wexler was born in Iaşi, north-eastern Romania, in a family of Jewish origin. After finishing his compulsory education, having noted Romanian writer Ion Creangă as a teacher during the primary school, he enrolled in the local Superior School of Commerce, graduating as an accountant in 1899. He would later study towards becoming a candidate in philosophy and literature at the , a left-wing splinter of the Free University of Brussels. Learning about socialist ideas during his commercial school years, Wexler joined the informal Socialist Party of Iaşi at nineteen, which was to join forces with the other socialist clubs in the nationwide Romanian Social Democratic Workers' Party (PSDMR) in 1893. Around the same period he met Litman Ghelerter, who became a close friend and one of his principal political collaborators.
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