| Preface | |
| A Note on the Transliteration of Hebrew Names and the Translation of Hebrew Book Titles | |
| Introduction: Nationalism, Socialism, and Nationalist Socialism | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | The Primacy of the Nation: Aaron David Gordon and the Ethos of Nation-Building | 47 |
| The Negation of the Diaspora | 47 |
| What Is a Nation? | 52 |
| Nationalism versus Socialism: The Amelioration of Man, Nation, or Society? | 59 |
| The Right to the Land: The Power of History | 68 |
| Ch. 2 | The Worker as the Agent of National Resurrection | 74 |
| The Heritage of the Second Aliyah | 74 |
| The First Stages of the Shift to the Right | 80 |
| The Elimination of the Marxist Po'alei Tzion Party | 92 |
| The Founding of Ahdut Ha'avoda | 107 |
| Experiential Socialism | 121 |
| Ch. 3 | Socialism in the Service of the Nation: Berl Katznelson and "Constructive" Socialism | 134 |
| The Legend and the Reality | 134 |
| The Nation above All | 146 |
| From "Productivist" to Nationalist Socialism | 153 |
| Ch. 4 | Ends and Means: The Labor Ideology and the Histadrut | 178 |
| The Bases of Power | 178 |
| Taking over the Collective Settlements: The Establishment of the Nir Company | 192 |
| The Cult of Discipline and Authority: The Destruction of Gdud Ha'avoda (the Labor Corps) | 198 |
| Ch. 5 | The Triumph of Nationalist Socialism: "From Class to Nation" | 217 |
| What Is a Class? | 217 |
| The Collaboration with the Middle Classes | 233 |
| The Struggle over Workers' Education | 244 |
| Ch. 6 | Democracy and Equality on Trial | 264 |
| The Hegemony of the Apparatus and the Poverty of Intellectual Life | 264 |
| Oligarchy and Conformism | 270 |
| Equality: Principle and Practice | 282 |
| The Failure of the Family Wage | 290 |
| Class Warfare in the Histadrut | 306 |
| Epilogue: From the State-in-the-Making to the Nation-State | 318 |
| Notes | 347 |
| Glossary | 391 |
| Bibliography | 399 |
| Index | 409 |
