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KIBBUTZ IN THE GHETTO
Many people know the bunker of 18 Mila Street as the headquarters
of Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the ZOB (Jewish Fighting
Organization) and of the Ghetto uprising.
But only few know that it was also the seat of a Hashomer Hatsair
(Young Guardian) kibbutz founded by Anielewicz in the Ghetto.
Hashomer Hatsair (HH) was a movement bringing together young
Polish Jews sharing a secular, communist and democratic ideology
embodied by kibbutzim, collectivities molding their life
accordingly.
HH ideology resembles surprisingly Einstein's "new reason",
confirming its principle: "There are innumerable dogmatisms,
but only one rationality".
HH rationality rejects abstract generalities, admitting only
their empirically verifiable instances.
Thus, it rejects the phantasm of "nationality", admitting but
its cultural appearances in a purely descriptive manner.
Thus, it denies religious dogmas any moral, social or political
legitimacy and accepts religion only as a social phenomenon.
It rejects the homonym of "communism" kidnapped by the Soviet
tyranny defining its own "communism" as "everyone according to
his capacities; to everyone according to his needs" - as the
regime where an unproductive invalid needing costly treatment
gets more than the most productive, healthy man.
It rejects the homonym of "democracy" kidnapped by the uncrowned
kingdoms of the West, replacing it with "regime where the power
is exerted directly by the people". Considering son communism
as a necessary condition of democracy, as in the jungle of the
"free economy" power is sold at auctions called "elections".
It's remarkable that with the first notable direct democratic
decision of our civilization, approving Anielewich's call to
"die upright spitting in their face", the participants chose
their own death.
However, the Mila HH crushed in Warsaw gained numerous posthumous
victories. The HH kibutz named after Anielewich "Yad Mordechai"
has reiterated - victoriously this time - the Warsaw uprising.
110 civilians having at their disposal 37 rifles, one antitank
gun, two mortars and two machine guns held back regular Egyptian
troops of several thousand soldiers armed with artillery, tanks
and airplanes, which saved the Tel Aviv region.
And more generally, without several tens of kibbutzim of HH
pioneers Israel would never have been created.
That's from the military and political point of view. Ideologically,
the HH suffered grave setbacks. The first was the creation of Israel
as a religious state. And, more generally HH's anti-nationalist
and anti-religious dream of creating a model society in friendly
cooperation with Arabs has turned to a nightmare of incessant wars
and confrontations by fault of religious fundamentalists of both
sides.
However, there are left scaled-down models - Israeli kibbutzim
wherein we may seek inspiration if - as Einstein asserted -
we wish the mankind to survive.
