The Doctrine of Beitar

...and its property is more than from the power of our middle class. All of our factories in the land were built by the middle class. If the money for construction was not always in the hands of the middle class, then for example: the settlements were founded in part with the funds of homeowners designated for refuge — with the funds of a great capitalist. The middle group (Mas'ha, Sejera, and Ahdut) were founded with the funds of the ICA, that is – Baron Hirsch. The new settlements, like the Emek [Valley] – with the funds of Keren Hayesod. Ultimately, the bourgeoisie. Whether it is pleasant or not – but such is the situation. The sharpest attack of Communism is a real war against the bourgeoisie. Where it is victorious, it must destroy the bourgeoisie, take from it its great and distributing property, that is: to nullify the Jewish bourgeoisie, from which the power of construction draws its means. It does not matter at all whether by the term “the constructing capital” we mean private enterprises or the national funds; both this and that come from the power of the middle class and cannot come from other pockets, because other pockets do not exist in reality. In recent years, the Histadrut has tried to collect money among the American workers. Very nice, but in comparison to the forty million Lirot which were invested in the land after the war (these are the numbers recorded in the response of the Zionist Executive to Simpson), their collections are but a drop in the ocean. And it cannot be otherwise: a proletarian is a proletarian; his main characteristic is that he has no money.

And regarding the Land: the essence of Communism is: economy, construction; on the one hand, it promotes and blesses. To incite the peoples of the East against the national government. This government is, openly, an “imperialist” and exploitative government; my claim is different, I believe: that it is only the government, which we are forcing upon them, that compels its own destruction. But this is a side and separate question here, for the sake of the issue. One thing is clear: Communism uses war to create conflict among the peoples of the East, and this it can do only in the name of their national liberation. It says to them and must say to them: your land belongs to you, go to the sea. This it must also say, especially, to the Arabs of the Land of Israel. Because this tactic is strategic, as every army and every fighting movement...