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He was born in the town of [[Zolotonosha]], [[Ukraine]], under the [[Russian Empire]]. As an adult he joined the [[Russian Social Democratic Labor Party]] but was expelled for his Zionist beliefs. Subsequently, he helped form the [[Poale Zion]] party and devoted his life to promoting the party in Russia, Europe, and America. When the Russian social democrats came to power, Borochov returned to Russia in March 1917 to lead the Poale Zion and organize Jewish brigades for the [[Red Army]].<ref>[http://www.hagshama.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=1343 'Dov Ber Borochov']</ref> He became ill and died there of pneumonia in December 1917.
Borochov became highly influential in the Zionist movement because he explained nationalism in general, and Jewish Nationalism in particular in terms of [[Marxism|Marxist]] class struggle and [[dialectical materialism]]. Borochov predicted, correctly, that nationalist forces would be more important in determining events than economic and class considerations, especially as concerned the Jews. Borochov argued that the class structure of European Jews resembled an inverted class pyramid where few Jews occupied the productive layers of society as workers. The Jews would migrate from country to country as they were forced out of their chosen professions by a "stychic process" which would ultimately force migration to [[
A key part of Borochovian ideology was that the Arab and Jewish working classes had a common proletarian interest and would participate in the class struggle together once Jews had returned to
<blockquote>Many point out the obstacles which we encounter in our colonization work. Some say that the Turkish law hinders our work, others contend that Palestine is insignificantly small, and still others charge us with the odious crime of wishing to oppress and expel the Arabs from Palestine...<br>
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