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Or all of them – Germany will remain German and Italy Italian, but if, for whatever reason, the ruins and the sea in Tel-Aviv are destroyed – then a known book of sayings is lost to the account, and by this we will be compelled to reach a Hebrew majority.

And the conclusion from all this: there is no room for class [divisions] in colonization. Whoever wishes to join in a colonizing enterprise must, first of all, agree to the "exceptional principle" and come to terms with it. The success of colonization, under the conditions of our era, which is a law of the commercial sector and not the patriarchal sector, depends on the ability to conquer the markets. And if, in order to conquer these markets, one must sell cheaply – i.e., also produce cheaply – then it is impossible to be content even with a framework of an 8-hour workday or of high wages – even though we are all sure and convinced that this framework is a good framework and is consistent with justice and fairness. I am not saying, God forbid, that this is the current situation; until now our industry in the Land of Israel has existed and developed without violating the "framework", and we all hope that it will be so in the future as well; but the principle is correct: the need of state-building precedes the need of this or that class; and if we stand tomorrow or the day after before such a choice – either to give up the "framework" or to give up this progress of the settlement – we will of course give up the former; and the workers themselves will submit to this necessity, if not out of loyalty to the political idea, then for the simple reason that the destruction of our industry would also destroy their own existence and expel them from the land.

Or let us take the class-based perspective regarding private property itself. If it were possible to build the Hebrew majority on the basis of the "Kayeimet" [JNF principles], we might have agreed to skip it; but this is impossible, and the success of the building [enterprise] depends, as is known to all, on the introduction of private property. The nature of private property is that it also runs on its own: it will go to places where it has hope to bear "fruit", what is called 'Rentabilität' in a foreign tongue, and to a place where that hope does not exist, it will not go. This nature, perhaps, is a repulsive nature and causes distress, we will not argue about this today either, but it is nature, and that's that. And according to the class-based perspective of Marxism, the "principle" of private property has its source solely in the exploitation of the workers, and therefore it is the duty of the workers to fight