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A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals…
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Karl Marx
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1848
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[…] the Madison Left experience, at least in the early and mid-1960s, was never simply an American experience. It was more jumbled, at least more composite—like America itself? In my own not untypical…
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Paul Breines
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Newton, United States of America
Date:
1980
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In his book Ha-metsaref [The Purifier], vol. II §182, Rabbi Moses Kunitz wrote:
The term am ha-arets [lit., “People of the Land,” often meaning boors] was applied to people of various dispositions…
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Eliezer Zweifel
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Glukhov, Russian Empire
(Hlukhiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1885
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Gentlemen! Although I do not for a minute doubt that the majority of those present here know of the great worldwide workers’ holiday of “May 1st,” I nevertheless do not consider it redundant to remind…
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Unknown
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1892
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A future Jewish state founded on capitalism is impossible for technological reasons, as well. Within the limits of petty capitalism, it is not possible to mechanize agriculture and to create large…
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Nachman Syrkin
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1898
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The Bund has inscribed on its banner the demand for equal civil rights for the Jews. At the Convention the opinion was expressed that Jewish Social Democracy deals with the needs of the Jewish…
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The Bund
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1899
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Neglect of the Tasks of Autonomous Activity of the Proletariat: The Heritage of the Iskra Period
Many, far too many comrades remain deaf and blind to the questions we have just raised. This deafness…
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Leon Trotsky
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Geneva, Switzerland
Date:
1904
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Whereas the legislation regarding linguistic rights currently being considered by the Duma directly opposes the interests of the proletariat and the masses of the Jewish nation; and whereas this…
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The Bund
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Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1910
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The Hebrew worker did not come here as a refugee seeking shelter wherever it could be found, looking for any available means of survival. He went up into the land as an emissary of the nation, and as…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1925
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Dear friend Aaron Zeitlin,
You write (in Globus, issue 4) that to fight against the truly leftist—or, as you express it, “against the few who scream ‘impure’ [tomeh] sincerely”—is perhaps futile…
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Shmuel Niger
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1933