Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 60)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 60)

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village/Hamula form c£ production arrangement in the "Amiri" category
were further widened during this. period. Peasants within the
village/Hamula structure were becoming depeasantized while some heads
of Hamulas/villages were accumulating more wealth and land.
The late nineteenth century Ottoman rule marks the beginning of a
process known within the Marxist literature as “peasant
differentiation" (Lenin,1960; Bagchi,1982; Saleh,1979). Moreover,
the significance of the changes which occured to “"Mulk" land, it will
be shown, lies not so much in who owned the land, but rather on how
and through what means crops were produced.
The production relations which developed, primarily those of share-
cropping, were not compatible with pre-capitalist relations of
production. Instead, these developments signified a certain degree of
rupture from prevailing pre-capitalist relacions of production. The
literature on Palestine has tended to reject the phenomenon of share-
cropping as an indication of a transition to capitalism
(Firestone,1975; Brown, 1982; Gozansky,1986). Some authors claimed
that share-cropping was "...compatible with pre-capitalist relations
of production since the peasants involved were small producers tied to
the land and paying rent in kind..." (Gozansky, 1986:16-17). Others
saw this phenomenon as an indication of peasant resistance to change
and capitalism (Brown, 1982: 90), or, as a cultural or "religious"
response by Palestinian peasants to foreign capitalism (Firestone,
1975: 321).
Tne literature on share-cropping in Palestine, it will be
demonstrated, is conceptually and empirically inaccurate. The analysis
of the three different forms of share-cropping arrangements in
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Nahla Abdo-Zubi

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