Those guys were only utopian idealists who believed in non-coercive socialism. The people who really made it happen were Marx, Blum, Bernstein, Luxemburg and, of course, Lenin and Trotsky, and that was highly coercive, as is the contemporary socialism of Obama, et al in the US.
Those guys were only utopian idealists who believed in non-coercive socialism.
Likewise, no one was forced to live on qubbutzim.
The people who really made it happen were Marx, Blum, Bernstein, Luxemburg and, of course, Lenin and Trotsky, and that was highly coercive, as is the contemporary socialism of Obama, et al in the US.
Though for some reason the Far Left sees itself as "libertarian," "anti-statist," and "anti-coercion." No, they really do. They want the government to control everything and everyone, but they're "against the state."
See my posts earlier on the Jewish soul.