The Ashkenazi Revolution

284but a framework of those who believe in the eternity of Ashkenaz andgather around their faith in order to work for its sake. The element of faithwill be a solid foundation of the movement. You can always return to itafter failures and disappointments, and draw from it new strength.In coming years, the strength of the Labor movement will continuallydecline and, in its place will be the great forces of the AshkenaziRevolution. The Labor movement has sinned too much, saved itself toomuch and sacrificed Ashkenaz too much. It has failed in important fields,such as the battle between Ashkenaz and Germany, and in relationsbetween Ashkenaz and Sepharad. It has distanced itself from innocence;set up too many traps and, in the end, itself got caught in a series of trapsfrom which there is no escape. The minister of history has alreadycommanded one of his servants to prepare the paint and the brush, whichwill be used to paint, over the façade of this great movement, the wordliquidation. It has already completed its pioneering adventures andconquests, the joyful path that leads from summit to summit. Soon it willbegin to take the path of sorrow, on slippery steps downward that lead tothe abyss of no-time. Its division into three workers’ parties is not adisaster for it, and the uniting of the three will not bring it salvation. Butthe liquidation of the Labor movement will not be complete. The craftydoctrines and the twisted ideological combinations, upon which it has hungso many of its hopes, will disappear and be forgotten, but the honest deedsof the campaigner, of the builder, the plower, the paver of roads and thelayer of irrigation pipes – these honest deeds have already conquered forthemselves a place in eternity, and their memory will last to the end ofgenerations. All who come after the Labor movement will continue thiswork, and will view his predecessors and founders with awe and respect.11The fate of the nation is inextricably tied to the fate of Ashkenaz in theDiaspora, and to what is called the Jewish Question. We should reassessthis question in light of the abundant experience we have acculumated inthe last generation. We should ask, “who are we and what is our essence?”