Another major reason Herzl wanted to create a Jewish state is because of the economic and class inequalities many Jewish people faced in different European countries. Herzl, in one section, describes how many Jewish people had to work even harder than mainstream Europeans when they entered into the middle class from the lower income class. Herzl states, “For we had, curiously enough, developed while in the Ghetto into a bourgeois people, and we stepped out of it only to enter into fierce competition with the middle classes [...] where we have a double pressure to sustain, from within and from without”. Jewish people had to work even harder in order to make a decent living and support their families and this was primarily because they faced
