KIBBUTZIM has replaced the pioneer. The kibbutz, in a sense, bas fultilled the Zionist-SOcialist goal of typical modern 'normalisation' of Western capitalist society. Throughout klbbutz history, the service of klbbutzim to Zionism has predominated over an other concerns. Their brand of 'sociallsm' refiects this, and is best testified in the critical role the Kibbutz Federations are playing in the colonisation of the post-1967occupied territories. In a context where consolidating occupation over another people can be termed 'socialism', there is little wonder that the lm· plementation of policies of domination and dispossession should be called 'pioneering'. The book, The Seventh Da11, contains interviews with klbbutz. niks who fought in the 1967war. Amos, from Kibbutz Geva asks : «Can we go on holding the sword in one hand only? ... how can you go and talk to others about education towards klbbutz life? It seems to me that there's some sort of contradiction here. There's something here that contradicts the basic tenet of klbbutz life which says that every man has his own world and the right to fashion it. The question is whether this really applies to èvery man as a man, or whether it only holds good for the man who's a klbbutznik and a Jew and an Israely. Is it only people in this category that have a right to create something?» His question raises important issues for those believing the answer to anti-semitism is a Jewish nation-state. For those of us interested in securing an environment which supports cultural plural· ism the above suggests we be wary of relying on the klbbutz as a positive model. La Platafonna Programâtlca En todos los casos, el estudio de este documento ha sido muy serio y profundo. Corno ejemplo puede sefialarse el anâlisis que hicieron los 800 trabajadores de la fâbrica de tabacos «Miguel Fernândez Roig> (antigua «La Corona>) de esta capital, fâbrica que cuenta en su persona! con 480 mujeres. Con esa forma peculiar que tienen los tabaqueros de celebrar sus asambleas: escuchando las intervenciones y los informes desde los puestos de trabajo, y haciendo sonar las chavetas sobre las mesas a modo de aplausos, todo ello sin interrumpir la producciôn, se llevô a cabo la discusiôn y aprobaciôn de la tesis. Evello Telleria cDiscuten Trabajadores la Plataforma Programatica del Partido Comunista dP Cuba> Granma • La Habana • 23-X-75. 135
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