Albert einsteins's Political views

Throughout the November Revolution in Germany Einstein signed an appeal for the foundation of a nationwide liberal and democratic party,^[86][87] which was published in the Berliner Tageblatt on 16 November 1918,^[88] and became a member of the German Democratic Party.^[89]

Einstein flouted the ascendant Nazi movement, tried to be a voice of moderation in the tumultuous formation of the State of Israel and braved anti-communist politics and resistance to the civil rights movement in the United States. He participated in the 1927 congress of the League against Imperialism in Brussels.^[90] He was a socialist Zionist who supported the creation of a Jewish national homeland in the British mandate of Palestine.^[91]

After World War II, as enmity between the former allies became a serious issue, Einstein wrote, “I do not know how the third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth – rocks!”^[92] In a 1949 Monthly Review article entitled “Why Socialism?”^[93] Albert Einstein described a chaotic capitalist society, a source of evil to be overcome, as the “predatory phase of human development” (Einstein 1949). With Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell, Einstein lobbied to stop nuclear testing and future bombs. Days before his death, Einstein signed the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, which led to the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.^[94]

Albert Einstein, seen here with his wife Elsa Einstein and Zionist leaders, including future President of Israel Chaim Weizmann, his wife Dr. Vera Weizmann, Menahem Ussishkin, and Ben-Zion Mossinson on arrival in New York City in 1921.

Einstein was a member of several civil rights groups, including the Princeton chapter of the NAACP. When the aged W. E. B. Du Bois was accused of being a Communist spy, Einstein volunteered as a character witness, and the case was dismissed shortly afterward. Einstein’s friendship with activist Paul Robeson, with whom he served as co-chair of the American Crusade to End Lynching, lasted twenty years.^[95]

Einstein said "Politics is for the moment, equation for the eternity"^[96], stating that physics was more important in his life. He declined the presidency of Israel in 1952.