ABSTRACT
In practice, as in theory, the Zionist Organization is motivated in its Palestinian activities by Jewish nationalism and a social point of view. Those inspired solely by the nationalist motive hold that Zionism has the single object of achieving a Jewish majority in Palestine, which shall found a spiritually and economically self-sustaining commonwealth. The latest period of Zionist work in the Land represents the triumph of the latter tendency. The nationalist motive is being synthesized with the social point of view in this formula: a Jewish commonwealth with new social forms. The Zionist Organization began its practical work in Palestine eighteen years ago by founding small agricultural co-operative settlements, which held rigidly to the principle of Self-Labor. Exploitation of workers in such settlements was thus made impossible. Various forms of labor co-operatives have since been called into being, reaching their high water mark in farming groups with several hundred working members.
