Did they really believe Israel would be socialist?
Why was there an ideological change away from Lenin's anti-zionist position?
Did they really believe Israel would be socialist?
Why was there an ideological change away from Lenin's anti-zionist position?
I picked up somewhere that Stalin was hopeful of the communism of the early kibbutzim.
Right. And numerous Jewish people in the Southwest Asian region were supporters of socialism/the USSR, so with the west being a rival power and having evil intentions, I think Stalin assumed that Israel could exist as an independent and allied socialist state that resisted arab dictatorships and western imperialism.
And then it turned out that the Kibbutz of Israel was a result of cultural appropriation of arabic traditions.