The Controversy of Zion: Jewish Nationalism, the Jewish State, and the Unresolved Jewish Dilemmaby Geoffrey Wheatcroft

✍ Scribed by Review by: William B. Quandt

• Book ID: 125229172
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 220 KB
• Volume: 76
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20048003

✦ Synopsis

Recent Books masses of the Third World would rise up and use the state to produce an egalitarian political order more compassionate than capitalism and less oppressive than com munism. This belief in "Third Worldism" was given its fullest expression in coun tries like Algeria, which, after winning its independence in a bloody war, formed a vaguely socialist government and led the campaign for a more equitable division of the world's wealth. Today cynicism and