Jules Monnerot

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Jules Monnerot (born November 28, 1909 Fort-de-France , Antilles; † December 4, 1995 ) was a French philosopher and sociologist who emerged as a radical critic of communism .

Life

Jules Monnerot was the son of the same name Jules Monnerot (1874–1942). The father was a lawyer, journalist and socialist and one of the founders of the communist movement in Martinique. The son moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. His scientific studies were influenced by Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud and CG Jung. He concluded his studies with a thesis on the "young Karl Marx to the Communist Manifesto ". With Georges Bataille , Roger Caillois , Pierre Klossowski and Jean Wahl he founded the religious studies-inspired Collège de Sociologie in 1937. Monnerot also belonged to the Acéphale secret society, founded in 1936 .

After the war, Monnerot initially moved in the vicinity of the Gaullists . He took a strong anti-communist position and in 1949 published his main work, “Sociology of Communism”, for which he drew on his religious studies background. For Monnerot, communism was, according to the first sentence of the book, "the" Islam "of the 20th century". He was considered one of the leading European communism experts. In 1951 he advised the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe on the ban proceedings against the KPD. Monnerot broke away from the Gaullists and acted in nationalist and monarchist circles in the late 1950s. His political career finally ended in the leading political advisory staff of the right-wing extremist French party Front National , which he left shortly before his death because of political and personal quarrels with party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and general secretary Bruno Mégret .

Publications (selection in German)

  • Jules Monnerot: On the genealogy of the Communist Party . From: Sociologie du Communisme , Gallimard, Paris 1949. In: Merkur 45, Jg. 5, H. 11, 1951, pp. 1077-1090.
  • Jules Monnerot: The war that is at stake . Translation: Hans Naumann. Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Cologne 1951.
  • Jules Monnerot: Sociology of Communism . Translation: Max Bense, Elisabeth Walther, Hans Naumann. Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Cologne 1952.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://julesmonnerot.com/BIO_JM.html .

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personal data
SURNAME Monnerot, Jules
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort-de-France , West Indies
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1995