Moses Hess and Jewish Nationalism

In the middle of the 19th century, Moses Hess formulated the

first written principles of communism.

In 1862, Hess, or the

Communist Rabbi as he was called, wrote the book

Rome and Jerusalem, in which he laid the foundations for

a Jewish nationalist movement called Zionism.

In the book, he called on the Jewish people to become

separatists

and to prepare for the creation of a future homogenous Jewish

ethno-state.

Palestine would be occupied by the Jewish people, but the big problem

was Palestine was at this time 19 to

95% Arab.

Hess argued that international Jewish bankers would help

in this realization of stealing the land from the Palestinians.

Hess suggested in his book that one last race and

class struggle was being developed between the Aryans and the

Semites. In this fight, Hess predicted that the

Jews would stand as winners and the Europeans as

losers. The Jews would stand superior over all

other

peoples, and because Jews had preserved their

racial purity over the

centuries, it would give them a leading role in the

world.

Hess essentially promoted Jewgenics and racial hygiene for the

Jews and talked about a future Jewish ethno-state.

He also referred to Christianity as the religion of

death.

Fascinatingly, he predicted a future war in Europe, with

Germany, Italy, and Austria involved as part of a race

struggle.

Moses Hess was-