Socialism/Communism has also been closely connecyed with Jews - are we to assume that they all had an "intense HATRED of Judeo-Christian doctrine?"
The reality is that "socialism" is an integral part of contemporary modern Israel.
Enlightenment and Emancipation
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Moses Mendelssohn - leftist philosophic roots in the Jewish Enlightenment, or Haskalah,
Ludwig Börne - republican ideals in the aftermath of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars
- many Jews supported the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789, and the European Revolutions of 1848; while Jews in England tended to vote for the Liberal Party, which had led the parliamentary struggle for Jewish Emancipation (“the liberal Jewish compromise”)
Emergence of a Jewish working class
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- General Jewish Labor Union – was formed in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia in 1897
- distinctive Jewish socialist organizations spread across the Jewish Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire
- socialist Zionist political parties ie, Ber Borochov’s Poale Zion)
- socialist non-Zionist political movements calling for a Jewish national homeland
-autonomism - calling for non-territorial national rights for Jews in multinational empires
- folkism -advocated by Simon Dubnow - celebrated the Jewish culture of the Yiddish-speaking masses
- eastern European Jews migrated West from the 1880s and they brought their "leftist" ideologies to these growing Jewish communities - London’s East End, Paris's Pletzl, New York’s Lower East Side, Buenos Aires
- American Jewish socialist movements - "The Forward" (Yiddish-language daily), the International Ladies' Garment Workers,' the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
- important figures - Rose Schneiderman, Abraham Cahan, Morris Winchevsky, David Dubinsky
- late 19th and early 20th centuries -
Jews played a major role in the Social Democratic parties of Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Poland
- Enzo Traverso introduced the term "Judeo-Marxism" to describe the innovative forms of Marxism associated with these Jewish socialists
Radical Jews in Central and Western Europe
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Martin Buber - drew on Hassidism in articulating his anarchist philosophy
Gershom Scholem - an anarchist and a kabbalah scholar
Walter Benjamin - influenced by Marxism and Jewish messianism
Gustav Landauer - a religious Jew and a libertarian communist
Jacob Israël de Haan - combined socialism with Haredi Judaism
Bernard Lazare - leftist libertarian and a passionately Jewish Zionist
Karl Marx - an ancestrally Jewish; his maternal grandfather was a Dutch rabbi, while his paternal line had supplied Trier's rabbis since 1723
Jewish involvement in Russian Communism
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- antisemitism in the Russian Empire led to a disproportionate number of Jews attracted to "leftist" movements (anarchists, Bundists, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Trudoviks, Constitutional Democrats)
- Jewish Bolshevik party leaders included Grigory Zinoviev, Moisei Uritsky, Lev Kamenev, Yakov Sverdlov, Grigory Sokolnikov, and Leon Trotsky
- 5.21% of the Bolshevik Party in 1922 was Jewish
- 5 of the 23 ruling Council of People's Commissars between 1923 and 1930 were Jewish
- Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets (1929) was 402 ethnic Russians, 95 Ukrainians, 55 Jews, 26 Latvians, 13 Poles, and 12 Germans
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Stalin in 1952 allegedly said privately that
"every Jew is a potential spy for the United States"
Socialist Zionism and the Israeli left
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Marxist Ber Borochov - developed socialist Zionism which developed into a powerful force in the Yishuv, the Jewish settlement in Palestine.
Poale Zion - the Histadrut labour union and the Mapai party played a major part in the campaign for an Israeli state
Ben-Gurion - socialist, founder and first prime minister of Israel
Golda Meir - socialist, founder and prime minister of Israel
Kibbutz Movement - an experiment in practical socialism
Israeli Labour Party - have been in power in Israel for significant periods since 1948
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_left