Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 210)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 210)

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(*) Data presented here do not inciude rate of inflation. Had the
latter been included prices would have been lower.
The conditions created for the fallaheen as a result of the
development of capitalism in its settler colonial form is further
exemplified by the case of wheat production.
The Fallaheen and Wheat Production
The following case history of wheat production in Palestine during
the settlement period sums up the main arguments in this chapter. It
links the destitution, ruination and eventual proletarianization of
the fallaheen with the development of agricultural capitalism. It
also exemplifies different mechanisms used by a particular form of
colonialism, that is the Zionist settler movement,in reproducing and
expanding the new mode of production. These different mechanisms, it
will be shown, are the combination of economic competition and
political practices of boycott. The process undergone by Palestinian
wheat producers was double-edged. Colonial records and other official
correspondence acknowledged the presence of a problem referred to as
the “dumping of foreign wheat". They attempted to justify this
"dumping" by claiming that there was a prefernce for foreign white
over native black wheat. Yet serious concern about the consequences of
this “dumping " was also expressed by colonial administrators.
What is at issue here is the import of large quantities of wheat
te a country in which wheat was the major agricultural crop. The
"dumping" of foreign wheat was viewed by both British officials and
later by some writers, as a market phenomenon,a simple economic
problem. Surplus wheat production in Burope and some of the European
colonies were blamed for the dumping (Stein,1984:143). So far as the
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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation

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Nahla Abdo-Zubi

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