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Moses Hess Biography

Moses (Moshe) Hess (January or June 21, 1812 – April 6, 1875) was a French-Jewish philosopher and a founder of Labor Zionism. His socialist theories predicated on racial struggle, led to conflict with Karl Marx and Frederick Engels .

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The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.

Evaluation, Focus, Historical, Mode, Modes, Social

The Christian. . . imagines the better future of the human species. . . in the image of heavenly joy. . . We, on the other hand, will have this heaven on earth.

Christian, Earth, Hands, Imagines, Joy

In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw.

Frail, Secret, Teacher, Year, Years

Judaism is an historical religion.

Historical, Judaism, Religion

Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced with the national consciousness into one organic whole. It is primarily the expression of a nationality whose history for thousands of years coincides with the history of the development of a humanity and the Jews are a nation which, having once acted as the leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected with the rest of civilized nations.

Expression, Humanity, Judaism, Nationality, Organic, Years

The eternity of the spirit does not begin after death. . . but is, like God, always present.

Doe, Eternity, God, Spirit

I have always been edified by Hebrew prayers.

Edified, Hebrew, Prayer, Prayers

The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.

Age, Came, Historical, Revolution, Teaching, Teachings

We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe.

Europe, European, Germans, People, Universal

The race struggle is the primal one, and the class struggle secondary. The last dominating race is the German.

Class, Race, Secondary, Struggle

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