Author(s)

David Schwartz

The Department of Political Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

Zeev Jabotinsky, in contrast to the conservative economic approach that characterizes the right parties around the world, in essence supports a social democratic approach in the economic dimension, at least in the stage of the establishment of the Jewish state that will be established. Jabotinsky considered the topic of the need to protect the person’s individualism to be very important, since “every individual is a king” and he also supports the idea of the welfare state. The state has to give the individuals there basic needs, but the new Jew has to pay contribution to building the Hebrew new nation and new society. His approach was mixed of liberalism and nationalism, and he adopted the universal attitude of the famous Russian writer Tolstoy to the human suffer, and admired Garibaldi the leader that united Italy. After the second world war and the rise of the Fascists dictatorship of Germany and the communist revolution, Jabotinsky emphasized his belief in the values of liberalism like the American approach of Abram Linkolen that gave freedom to the slaves. Jabotinsky died in New York in the United States, the land of freedom and liberalism as refugee, far away from Russian culture that he was born to.

Revisionist Movement, Distributive Justice, Social Heritage of the Bible, National Arbitration, Monism, Personal Autonomy

Schwartz, D. (2016) The Social Doctrine of Zeev Jabotinsky, from the Fathers of Zionism. Open Journal of Political Science, 6, 387-392. doi: 10.4236/ojps.2016.64034.