Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 101)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 101)

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resulted in its expropriation and their eventual eviction from the
village (Scholch, 1982:25).
In most cases, including the Marj sold to the Sursuks and the
Maritime Plain lands sold to the Rothschilds, land was sold complete
with its inhabitants; and in the case of Beisan, appropriated by the
Sultan himself, peasants were kept on the land. The process of land
expropriation in this period did not result in a simultaneous
expropriation of the peasants. Nonetheless, it did prepare the ground
for their eventual expropriation.
It has been suggested that the Ottoman state intentionally avoided
the creation of a class of landless peasants in order to prevent
further internal unrest. Within the context of Palestine, some authors
stress the potential threat that was posed to the Arab national
movement by the increasing number of Russian Jewish settlers
(Antonius,1969). Some authors also argue that the peasants resistance
to new forms of production which were not compatible with their pre-
capitalist forms was another major reason for the absence of
proletarianization and the lack of capitalist development in
agriculture prior to British rule (Gozansky,1986; Saed,1985). In an
attempt to prove this point, Gozansky goes to great lengths
detailing the different forms of production relations adopted by the
Rothschilds in thelr agricultural enterprise. Her conclusion is that
only when share-cropping was adopted were the Rothschilds able to
succeed in their enterprise (Gozansky, 1986:45-46).
While expropriation of peasants ona large-scale was not a
practice during late Ottoman rule, it was not altogether absent. The
sale of Abu-Shusha village, for example, did result in the immediate
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