Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 116)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 116)

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Chapter III
British Colonialism and the Agrarian Economy
The aim of this chapter is to examine the colonial nature of
British rule in Palestine, the relationship of this rule to Zionist
colonization, and the effects both forces had on the social and
economic structure of Palestine. It will demonstrate that these were
the major forces in the acceleration of the process of capitalist
development in Palestine. More particularly, they created what Marx
describes as the historical condition necessary for the emergence of
capitalism; the expropriation of land and the expropriation of the
peasantry.
This chapter provides an extensive analysis of the phenomenon of
land and peasant expropriation. It will be argued that the transfer
of land from the indigenous Palestinians to the European Jewish
settlers was not a simple and peaceful matter of sale and purchase as
most of the current literature suggests but was, rather, a far more
complex phenomenon. It will be shown that, in fact, the process of
land and peasant expropriation was anything but peaceful, legal or a
matter of simple market transaction.
The historical documents show that almost all cases of land
transfer were made possible only by the intervention of the colonial
state. As these documents demonstrate, politicai, legal and sheer
physical force were at the core of the process of land transfer.
Expropriation of land and peasants, it will be demonstrated, was
accompanied by other colonial policies which devastated peasant
economy and peasant agriculture. Of particular significance in this
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