Theodor Herzl
A Jewish State
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4064066463489
Table of Contents
PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS AT A SOLUTION
SOME FORMS OF REALIZING NON-TRANSFERABLE PROPERTY
SOME OF THE COMPANY'S FUNCTIONS.
SETTLEMENT OF SKILLED LABORERS.
RESPONSIBLE MEN OF THE LOCAL GROUPS.
THE DEPARTURE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES.
SOCIETY OF JEWS AND JEWISH STATE
BENEFITS OF THE IMMIGRATION OF THE JEWS.
It is astonishing how little insight many of the men who move in the midst of active life possess of the science of economics. Hence it is that even Jews faithfully repeat the cry of the Anti-Semites: "We depend for sustenance on the nations whose guests we are, and if we had not hosts to support us we should die of starvation." This is a point that shows how greatly unjust accusations may weaken our self-knowledge. But what are the true grounds for this statement concerning the nations which take us in? Where it is not based on limited physiocratic views it is founded on the childish error that commodities pass from hand to hand in continuous rotation. We need not wake from long slumber, like Rip van Winkle, to realize that the world is considerably altered by the production of new commodities. The technical progress made during this wonderful era enables even a man of most limited intelligence to note with his short-sighted eyes the appearance of innumerable new commodities. The spirit of enterprise has created them.
Labor without enterprise is the stationary labor of ancient days; and typical of it is the work of the husbandman, who stands now just where his progenitors stood a thousand years ago. All our material welfare has been brought about by men of enterprise.