Libertarian Communism is not against human nature

From each according to ability - to each according to needs

For those of us who are not so sure whether the libertarian communist principle of "From each according to ability - to each according to needs" is compatible with human nature.

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Libertarian Communism is not against human nature

Ilan Shalif

The Zionist settler colonialist project in Palestine was significantly dependent on young pioneers from the East European Zionist youth movements most of them came from. These young people vacillated between nationalist and leftist ideas common at the period after the Second World War.

The Zionist establishment enabled them to build agricultural settlements - cooperatives and communes. These cooperatives, and more so the communes, advanced the expansion of the areas that Israel was built on in 1948 and many new ones were built even during the Israel's first years, in order to take possession of new areas.

The most interesting process for us is that even when the Zionist settler colonialist project and the Israeli State stopped promoting these settlements, some persisted up to the present day.

The Marxist and political socialist trends evaporated long ago... However, a substantial percentage (about 20%) of the communes persist in the internal libertarian communist relation of "from each according to ability - to each according to needs" (according to commune ability).

The other day, a 74-year-old member of one of these 70 communes (who is also an ex-minister) was interviewed on national TV and proudly claimed that the communist principle still holds: that his substantial monthly pension is added to the commune's income and he gets his equal share like all other members.

Like most members of the 70 sharing communes, he has not renounced Zionist settler colonialism... But like most other members of these communes, he still holds fast to the equality and solidarity principles of distributing the commune's wealth!