Well, the Jews made a stab at socialism. More than a stab, really, if we remember Engels and Marx and Trotsky. Tabenkin, Katzenelson, Sneh. At cooperative farms everyone was addressed as comrade and people sat at long tables eating hard-boiled eggs with tin cutlery from plastic plates.
Business reigns as absolute monarch.
The kibbutz movement has been marginalized to the precipice of oblivion. At some, up to 70 percent of members are employed on the outside. Many kibbutzim run guest houses swept clean by Slavic women and commercial swimming pools scrubbed by Asian houseboys. The Kibbutz has been reborn as Management. Hardly a week goes by without a new Israeli company offering its shares on an American stock exchange.