The Ashkenazi Revolution

261centuries. It brought the community, in all its sectors, from the realm of theexperimental to the realm of certainty. A kibbutz is an experiment, but acity or town is a certainty. Restraint is experimental, but subjugation of theArabs in the Land of Israel through Jewish military superiority is certainty.Policies, for example of Moshe Sharett, that seek to find a solution throughdialog with the English and Arabs, were experimental, but policies thatworked toward the expulsion of the English and Arabs from the Land ofIsrael tend toward the path of certainty.Revisionism had another great quality, from the perspective of the interestsof the Labor movement. Due to its relatively moderate internal stance, itencountered far fewer internal battles than the Labor movement had, and atthe same time it pulled chestnuts out of the fire by solving the externalproblems that it would never have been able to solve by itself. Revisionismpaved the way for the Labor movement from the experimental to thecertain, and it enabled it to reveal its great constructive skill during theyears of the State of Israel.5At the time of the writing of this book, the Labor movement is againembroiling itself, with no way out, in the entanglement that has been itscurse from the beginning, and that it has always pursued - the entanglementthat derives from the great burden of the experimental, and a preference forit that strangles the certain. In quick steps, the Labor movementapproaches, and brings the nation along with it, a situation that is a trap -the same situation that the settlement found itself in during the end of the1930’s. In another thirty years, that is to say in the year 1993, and likelysome time before then, the experimental world of the Labor movement willentirely collapse as a result of the following developments:1. The Kibbutz movement, which depends increasingly upon itspioneer-worker abilities while losing its ideological potency, will lose itspower. At the same time, the current social structure of the nation, atwhose center stands the Kibbutz civilization, will completely collapse.