Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 123)
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- Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 123)
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expropriated people. The role of force and extra-legal mechanisms in
expropriating the peasants is now also acknowledged by most Marxist
writers (Luxemburg, 1951; Bradby,1980).
The process of the expropriation of the Palestinian direct
producers offers striking similarities with the classic Marxist model
particularly regarding the second point advanced by Marx, i.e., the
use of force and other non economic mechanisms. However, with regard
to the first point, t.e., the expropriation process as a turning point
in the transformation of one economic structure to another, the
Palestinian case differs.
Between 1920 and 1947, 1,790,000 dunams or about 26 per cent of
the total cultivable land was expropriated from the indigenous direct
| producers. (2) Of this, 60 per cent or one million dunams were
expropriated between 1920 and 1930. (3) This process resulted in the
ousting of tens of thovsands of Palestinian direct producers.
Examining the question of Palestinian land transfer to the Jewish
settlers within the context of expropriation is quite new to the
current literature on Palestine. To date, most literature on Palestine
continues to present the phenomenon of land transfer as a pure
economic or market phenomenon of sale and purchase.
Nowhere in the literature are the questions raised or answered as
to why and how land changed hands in the first place. Most writers so
far maintain that the “high" price paid by the Zionist land purchasing
companies to the previous owners was the primary reason behind the
"sale" (Zureik, 1979; Stein,1984; Ohana,1981; Kimmerling, 1983).
None of the writers have explained the reasons for the alleged
inflated land prices. This factor is crucial to the understanding of
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- Nahla Abdo-Zubi
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