Kibbutzim

Kibbutzim or Kibbutz are left-libertarian communities spread out all over Israel. They have an estimated population of 120,000 people spread over 270 communities.Ran Abramitzky, "Lessons from the Kibbutz on the Equality–Incentives Trade-off," 'Journal of Economic Perspectives 25, no. 1 (2011) Noam Chomsky has said the early kibbutzim "came closer to the anarchist ideal than any other attempt that lasted for more than a very brief moment before destruction". Graham Purchase wrote that the kibbutz became "exactly the sort of modern communal village/small town life which Kropotkin had envisaged".
== History ==
== Decision-Making ==
Kibbutzim make decisions using democratic assemblies. At once Kibbutz:Members met twice a week at town meetings to make decisions on items like the budget, electing officers, and punishing people who broke the community rules. Members elected a general secretary who prepared the meeting agendas, chaired the meetings, and served as the kibbutz's delegate in the federation of kibbutzim. The secretary received assistance from a secretariat, a nominating committee, an education committee, a high school committee, a cultural committee, a welfare committee, a security committee, and a landscape committee. Every kibbutz member at some point served as an officer, in a committee, or in some other position of authority. No officer was allowed to serve for more than two or three years, and the positions, like all work on the kibbutz, were unpaid.Melford Spiro (1970) Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia, page 10
== Law and Order ==
According to Wikipedia:the crime rate [in the Kibbutz] is lower than the national average by a significant margin.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz#CrimeIn 1940, a British airman stationed in Palestine wrote that in the kibbutzim, "The problem of violence has simply not arisen". In 1986, a study on Kibbutz Vatik noted that the kibbutz had never experienced any serious crime. James Horrox comments that these "remarks on the non-existence of crime were all made at a time when many of the communities were of equivalent size to small towns, or at least large villages, many of them housing well over a thousand people each."James Horrox (2009) A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement. AK Press
== Economy ==
== Environmental Protection ==
Kibbutz Lotan, with its Center for Creative Ecology, practices and teaches visitors about organic gardening and construction with materials from the local landbase. The kibbutz's website reports, "Over the last four years Lotan, through its composting and recycling efforts, has reduced its overall waste disposal by 70% each year."http://kibbutzlotan.com/#!sustainability/crfd
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