Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 70)
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- Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 70)
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a marginal form cf collective use of land practiced only to supplement
the peasants' major source of income, and was limited to a specific
area of Paiestine. This chapter argues as well, that the
popularizati-1 of the concept that Musha'ta was a widespread phenomenon
in Palestine carries more political and ideological weight than
historical veracity.
Unlike the term Asiatic Mode of production, described in greater
detail in the first chapter, notions like "feudalism" or "semi-
feudalism" used by some authors were not the result of any serious
study of pre-capitalist Palestine. Authors using these notions were
instead focusing on Palestine under colonial capitalism and _ the
changes it underwent as a result. Nonetheless, despite the lack of a
precise account on the component of “feudal” Palestine in their
approach, authors here provide a significant contribution to the issue
of change in Palestine. Change in this approach is not entirely
imposed from the outside, rather , there is room for internally
generated changes. (Owen,1981; Scholch,1982;1986)
This chapter will demonstrate that Palestine's pre-capitalist
economy was not feudal and was by no means Asiatic. Instead, it was
composed of a variety of forms of production, the analysis of whicnr
will be presented in due course. These forms of production, it will
also be shown were quite different from the ‘multiple modes of
production' suggested by Bryan Turner (1978) and later adopted by
Zureik (1981). Palestine, this chapter will show demonstrated a
historically specific mode of production composed of various forms.
Moreover, the country's pre-capitalist economy was neither stagnant
nor backward. Changes in production relations in pre-capitalist
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- Nahla Abdo-Zubi
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