The bluffs of dominant kibbutz social research

What is it about?

This article is about a major bluff by almost all kibbutz researchers, that a kibbutz is a community that can be understood as any other community, without alluding to inter-kibbutz organizations (I-KO for short). Researchers studied and depicted kibbutzim (pl. of kibbutz) without mentioning the profound impact on every aspect of their life by I-KOs whose leaders and officials were the most powerful elite of the kibbutz field. Hence, kibbutz research tells half-truths and the article expose the many lies this research promulgated.

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Why is it important?

The kibbutz society is the largest and most successful of communal collective egalitarian societies. Its research produced thousands of publications by hundreds of scholars but the avoidance of studying I-KOs and their profound impact on kibbutz cultures which my ethnographies have untangled made this vast literature largely worthless for understanding kibbutz society.