19.08.2024, Moscow.
The state of Israel was initially based on communes, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, political scientist and philosopher Sergey Kurginyan said on July 26 on the program Conversation with a Sage on the Zvezda radio station.
According to Kurginyan, the backbone of the Israeli state in 1950s-1960s consisted of kibbutzes, which were actually communes. However, the so-called denounciation of Stalin’s personality cult that Khrushchev announced at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ideologically split the Israeli communes.
“Kibbutzes were communes, literally, communist ones (I visited a number of such communes), which after 1956 divided into those with portraits of Lenin and Stalin and those with portraits of Lenin only. The 20th Congress made this split in the kibbutz movement. Old men could not help worshiping Stalin as before, while young men tended towards Lenin, and families stopped talking to each other whenever the Stalin issue was mentioned,” the political scientist tells.
Kurginyan stresses that its in kibbutzes that the Israeli planned to build the Soviet kind of communism.
“In kibbutzes, they claimed that they would implement all the dreams of the Soviet communism: a new Man, a new way of life, an absolutely different upbringing of children, a commune etc. They passionately moved in this direction,” the leader of the Essence of Time movement adds.
As an example of such ideology the philosopher refers to the words of the chief of the Israeli General Staff who could tell his subordinates back in 1960s, “Today we will not have a General Staff briefing, because I am working in the kitchen in the kibbutz, and I must not leave the kitchen.”
Kurginyan notes that since its creation Israel has strongly evolved towards capitalism, and its population has transformed into a market-oriented consumerist society.
“The kibbutz movement was of great importance inside Israel itself for quite a long time. Israel’s transition to market-oriented, capitalist, and partially hedonistic footing was very late,” the political scientist concludes.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
