Table of Contents

Introduction; Note on the text; Chronology; Bibliographical note; The Holy History of Mankind; Socialism and Communism; A Communist Credo; Consequences of a Future Revolution of the Proletariat; Appendix: Christ and Spinoza (from Rome and Jerusalem: The Last Nationality Question); Index.

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Moses Hess is a major figure in the development of both early communist and Zionist thought.

About the Author

Moses Hess was both a colleague and protagonist of Karl Marx in the early communist movement, and one of the forerunners of Zionism: he died in Paris in 1875. Shlomo Avineri is one of the most distinguished political scientists in the world: his many publications include the classic study of The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge, 1968).