Ber Borochov
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Ber Borochov's synthesis of Marxist dialectical materialism with Zionist nationalism profoundly shaped the ideological foundations of Socialist-Zionism and early Israeli state-building. As a theoretician working at the intersection of class struggle and Jewish nationalism in the early 20th century, Borochov developed novel concepts like "conditions of production" and "stychic process" to analyze the unique historical circumstances of the Jewish people. He identified Jews as experiencing a "double disability" - simultaneously a landless nation and proletarian class - and argued that only territorial concentration in Palestine could normalize Jewish economic participation and enable effective class struggle. Through historical analysis and examination of Borochov's theoretical works, his materialistic approach emerges as particularly significant in positioning Palestine as the optimal location for Jewish socialist development, citing its limited indigenous population, geographic features, and lack of competing Western interests. While Borochov's dialectical materialism significantly influenced early Israeli labor movements and continues to shape leftist political parties, contemporary Israeli society has largely shifted toward Nachman Syrkin's non-Marxist idealistic socialism, reflecting a broader transition from class-based to nation-based priorities in the post-state period.

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Published 1968
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Gershon Winer