The Doctrine of Beitar

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And although I face the danger of being honored with the nickname "chauvinist," and in addition, the title "mystic," I do not hesitate to express my belief: the social redemption will not come as long as the "expert" does not have a laboratory of his own at his disposal. And it may be, that those who call me these things because of this laboratory—it is their right. And the right of the greater humanity is assured with regard to the Jews.

And if for a moment we forget the secondary national aspects of the matter, and consider it only from the perspective of repairing the life of humanity and the world—it is still possible that it is worthwhile to dedicate a few generations of youth, who will subordinate their own issue to all other matters and concentrate all their powers in but one direction—the direction of establishing this laboratory, from which the redemption of humanity will emerge.

Throughout the process of building the Jewish State, the capitalist is not, for us, a capitalist, and the worker is not a worker; both this one and that one are for us nothing but material for the structure we are erecting. Their affairs—private or class-based—are cast aside. Their successes and failures interest the Zionist "center" of our soul only to the extent that they might interfere with or slow down the process of creating a Jewish majority in the Land of Israel. All other aspirations, personal or collective, social, cultural, etc., etc.—all of them, without exception, we subordinate to the sole p r i m a c y of the state idea; and we are not "gentiles," we do not seek to thrive on any other "imperialism."

From this follow several assumptions.

First: To create a majority, masses of people are necessary, and thus—first of all, members of the popular classes; but these are not the providers of work, but the recipients of work, and for that reason—"Jewish majority" and "Jewish labor" are synonymous terms.

Second: Any person who has capital and founds a new enterprise in the Land of Israel on the basis of