Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 163)
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- Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 163)
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played a much greater role in these transactions than did pure
economic motivation. They also show that when land was transferred the
peasants were often removed by force. Even more importantly, these
cases are indicative of a wider and more comprehensive process of
change, the dynamics of which affected the majority of the peasants.
The process of land and peasant expropriation, it was shown, was
not limited to individual villages. This process, enhanced by the
British taxation system, affected the whole socio-economic structure
of the peasant economy. While expropriation created more poverty,
taxation served as a mechanism for further expropriation. The ultimate
result of this process, it was shown, was poverty, indebtedness and
destitution.
The detailed analysis of the issue of peasant and land
expropriation provided in this chapter was necessary for illuminating
two focal points. On the one hand, it has been shown that the role of
the colonial state in the process of land transfer from the indigenous
Palestinians to the European (Jewish) settlers cannot be ignored or
understated. Legal and political mechanisms used in the process, it
has been shown, were crucial to the ‘transfer of land' and to the
expropriation of land and peasants. Moreover, this chapter has
demonstrated that the colonial state did not operate alone in
Palestine. Zionism, vaguely defined at this stage of the study as the
ideology of the European Jewish bourgeois class, has played an equally
important role in the process of expropriation.
Colonialism in its Zionist form, this chapter showed was not solely
based on the economic exploitation of the indigenous Palestinians.
Data gathered on land ‘transfer' here provide that the Zionist
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- Nahla Abdo-Zubi
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