Shlomo Avineri is a professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books include The Social and Political Thought of Marx and, most recently, a study of Moses Hess entitled Prophet of Communism and Zionism.
With the virtual disappearance of the Jewish working class in the Diaspora, and the decline of the Labour movement in Israel, Jewish socialism is beginning to look historically limited, rather...
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