A Study On The Socialist Zionism Of Ber Borochov

Zionism is the political movement of Jews and Jewish ideology that supports the creation of a Jewishhomeland in the territory defined as the Land of Israel. In the late19th century, as an ideology describinghow Jewish people gains its self-awareness and put it into practice, Zionism has a great influence on theJewish communities throughout the world. With the development of Zionist movement, Zionism split intodifferent factions such as Political Zionism, Cultural Zionism, Religious Zionism, Revisionist Zionismand so on. Socialist Zionism established by Ber Borochov is an important faction. His theory and practiceleft a valuable political and spiritual wealth to later generations.As a well-known leader for Zionism movement, Ber Borochov devoted himself to the theoretical andpractical work of Zionism movement. He has an important position in the Jew. To make an in-depth studyon his thought is an important subject in Jewish history and Zionist history.The Socialist-Zionists represented by Borochov advocated combining Socialism and Zionism. Thisideology originated from Eastern Europe and Palestine at the end of the nineteenth century and the earlytwentieth century.The establishment of Socialist Zionism was the result that many factors act together. Particularly, theRussian authorities persecuted the Jews to make their families break up. The persecution hurt the Jewsemotionally and physically and Ber Borochov’s thought was deeply affected by the wave of anti-Semitismwhich urged him to take the road leading to Socialist Zionism.Lovers of Zion laid organizational foundation for the development of Zionism in the world and theprogressive revolutionary ideas had a profound impact on Ber Borochov. The Second Aliyah made BerBorochov become a complete Zionist and urged him to found Poale Zion and wrote platform for it. After all,the establishment of Poale Zion was an attempt in which Socialist-Zionist theory was put into practice.OurPlatform written by Ber Borochov had an important effect on the Zionist movement at that time and was ofgreat importance in enlightening later generations.Ber Borochov’s thought had made overall and deep exposition to the problem of Jewish people, classstruggle and the economic development of Jewish people. Ber Borochov defined the concept and type ofnationalism，this feeling of kinship, created as a result of the perceived common historic past and rooted in the common conditions of production, is called nationalism. At the same time, Ber Borochov first proposedthe term “production condition” which indicates that production condition is the sum of the historicalenvironment, geographical environment and anthropological environment based on relations of production.Ber Borochov’s main contribution was to successfully combine Socialism and Zionism and formSocialist Zionism. Socialist-Zionism became rich and perfect with the development of world Zionistmovement. As is well-known, the originality, popularity and decline of any ideology had its ownbackground cause.；Socialist-Zionism was no exception. Internal contradictions on socio-economic problemand national problem and other problems made Socialist-Zionism decline.