[madinmadtown]

The Podhoretz piece is excellent.
One of the great experiments in communism is the Israeli kibbutz. I was for years under the mistaken impression that they were self-sufficient communities. Friends who moved back to the kibbutz came to visit and we were talking crops. And for the first time I realized that the government told them what to plant year to year. The kibbutz system was indeed central planning by the government and that the small farm I grew up on was far more self-suficient and sustaining than the kibbutz. The kibbutz that they lived on had all the same problems of all socialist endeavors. Someone would not contribute to the work effort. Someone would take more than their fair share. The government directives were good theory, but bad practice.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I lived on a Kibbutz in the 70’s. It was supposed to be an egalitarian paradise based on the “each according to his needs” ideology.

Turns out, like every endeavor into socialism, the minute someone is put in charge Socialism becomes Communism. Then the inner circle become the haves and the rest become the have-nots.

Nothing mysterious here. It is just a fact.

[RoadTest]

Thank you! I didn’t know that.