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Ukrainewatch — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:14:50 +0000

It is interesting fact that the world-known Israeli kibbutz (eng. community) is the ancestor of Russian cooperative. After a series of anti-Semitic riots (pogrom) took place in Russia in the early beginning of the twentieth century, many Russian Jews who were afraid of further riots had emigrated from Russia to the U.S. and Palestine. Russian Jews who immigrated to Palestine were strong supporters of Zionism movement. And they understood that they would have to live in area where majority of land is covered by dessert and inhabited by a hostile population. Under these circumstances the key to their survival was cooperation in agriculture and protection. The first kibbutz “Dganiya” organized on the cooperative principles was founded in 1910 near the Lake Kemeret. In 1922 there were already 19 kibbutzes on the territory that is Israel now. In 2008 more than two thousand and five hundred kibbutzes operate in Israel and produce almost 40% from the national agricultural output.
But the main point that I wanted to make is that the Russian theory of cooperative organization was perverted by the communists. Originally, Chaynov viewed the cooperative as a democratic self-governed professionally-managed profit-seeking organization.

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What Will Happen to a Socialist Seastead? « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:10:03 +0000

[...] cooperatives have transformed into professionally managed, profit-seeking organizations. From Peter Klein who picked up on a Financial Times story, The Capitalist Kibbutz: “‘The kibbutz was never [...]

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