Shlomo Avineri is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. During 1975-77, he was Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His other works include Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State (Cambridge, 1972), The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge, 1968) and the Making of Modern Zionism (Philadelphia,1981). His most recent book is Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution (Yale, 2019).