The Ashkenazi Revolution

146he shoots pessimistic glances to beyond his own world, the wonderfulworld of the kibbutz that provides all abundant goodness.In his bitter relinquishment of the ideological field that confuses anddisappoints, the kibbutznik applies himself, with greater devotion, toindustry and production. Here one final objective becomes available tohim, and here he can take advantage of, in the realm of nature sciences, therationalist-materialist approach that is typical of it. Many have worked thisfield of building the Land of Israel, but nobody, in this field, has reachedthe ankles of the kibbutznik. Nobody has penetrated so deeply into thesecrets hidden within the Land of Israel, its waters, its stones, its soil, as hehas. No man has created possibilities as he has, even if these possibilitiesare not generally taken advantage of by himself, due to his ties to his ownlimited society. The kibbutznik, a man slow of advancement, a man whoseideology is, to a large degree, infantile and, from a revolutionarystandpoint, lags far behind David Stern and Leib Trotsky, created withinthe field of utilitarian use of nature-science, wonders and records that invitethe encouragement of the world. The more we distance ourselves from thekibbutz sphere of culture - of the chicken coop, the cattle shed, the nurseryand the accounting rooms, the calculations and management of thebranches, so does the reach of the kibbutz increase. The material wealth ofthe kibbutz, which continues to increase, serves as proof to its members ofits power and is compensation – which is necessarily poor – and of thebitter ideological disappointment.7At the end of the 1920’s it had already become completely clear to theLabor movement that it would not be able to realize its great specific goalin the Land of Israel under British rule: The creation of a Jewish workingclass. This land was Arab-English-Jewish. The Jewish participantintensified the natural increase of the Arabs, created an Arab proletariatclass, and through the power of the internal logic in this partnership, theJews were obligated to sustain this Arab proletariat. Under the conditionsof British rule, it would never, under any circumstances, be possible for the