Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 278)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 278)

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of the Arab village is the reason for the indigenous economy's failure
tu develop capitalistically. Due to overpopulation, the land Iinherita-
nce system and the lack of investment in the village, Arab viilages,
it is maintained, were inherently underdeveloped and the villagers
always underemploved. This state, it is further argued, places the
employer at an advantage. Since there was always abundant labor at nis
disposal he could exploit the peasant proletariat as he pleased
witnont fear of running out of potential replacements. Hence, Carmi
and Rosenfeld contend that the employer could get away with cbaying
"a replacement or alternative cost only", rather than the worker's
cost of production (Carmi and Rosenfeld, 1980:190-92).
While this neo-Marxist pecilion provides a more adequate
Gescription of the relaticnship between capital and labour than “2 the
other, non-marxist approaches described above, it nonetheless also
contains some major problems. It makes use cf the articulation of
modes of productions thesis which has been extensively employed in the
s.idy of the South African and Rhodesian economies (Arrighi,1973;
Burawoy, 1976; Wolpe,1980) and shares me cenceptual probiems
e sociated with these studies.
At the theoretical level, this approach has been criticised as
functionalist and a-historic, for it fails to explain the origin of
various key phenomena, such as the origin of the class of migrant
labour and the relationship between this class ana colonial
capitalism. In this framework the class of semi-peasant semi-
proletariat is assumed to be static in nature and that it exists
because it is functional to capitalism. Associated with this is also
the assumption that the pre-capitalist economy is static and incapable
of generating changes from within. This is emphatically Cemonstrated
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