When Jewish Messianism Was Socialist

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When Jewish Messianism Was Socialist

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Socialism@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 days ago

Today the Chabad-Lubavitch movement champions far-right religious zealotry under a messianic banner. But a century ago, left-wing Jewish thinkers like Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka understood messianic prophecy as foretelling universal liberation.

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