2. Jewish settlers' dream of a collectivistic agrarian utopia
The same forces of modernization that were a prerequisite for the Dessau Bauhaus' New Man (sport, industry, mass society, urban media and tempo) seemed to spell the downfall of the kibbutz's New Man (rural, agrarian, craft-oriented). Another irony is that the collectivistic society assumed by Gropius and other modernists to be Europe's dawning postcapitalist future came closest to realization in Palestine, albeit under substantially different circumstances.
The trend in the kibbutzim during the seventies, with the introduction of certain urban-style entertainment and consumerism, made the kibbutzim even more like the type of communities envisioned by Gropius in the late 1920s.
kibbutzim - Hebrew: קיבוצים
