The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 2)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 2)

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THE PROLETARIANIZATION OF PALESTINIANS IN ISRAEL:
A STUDY OF DEVELOPMENT AND CLASS FORMATION
by
Najwa Hanna Makhoul
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Febru-
ary, 1978.
This thesis examines the emergence of a Palestinian proletariat in
Israel in light of a historically-held commitment by the Zionist movement
to an exclusive Jewish proletariat in Palestine. This commitment derives
from socialist Zionism, identified here as the ideological/theoretical
foundation and plan of action underlying the capitalist settler-colonial
social formation that Israel represents.
The study involves identifying the causes underlying the current
proletarianization of Palestinians by Israeli capital and the implica-
tions this process may have on the class struggle. It hypothesizes that
this process creates an objective basis for potential proletarian alli-
ance between Palestinian-Arabs and Israeli-Jews.
The theoretical background for this analysis is the law of uneven de-
velopment and the method is dialectical materialism.
The starting point of this thesis is the view that development is
the outcome of the contradictory unity of the forces of production and
the relations of production in which the latter predominates. This unity
involves interaction between objective forces (material conditions) and
subjective forces (theory, social consciousness, etc.).
The relations of production which predominate the development pro-
cess are class relations. They are thus relations to economic, political
and ideological apparatuses by which the boundaries of social classes are
defined.
In Israel today, the proletarianization of Palestinians is an aspect
of class formation which was prohibited under the historical domination
of socialist Zionist relations of production. It, therefore, involves
transformation of these relations in the three spheres (economic, politi-
cal and ideological). Evidence from this study suggests that this as-
pect of class formation represents the synthesis of qualitative change
in the relations of production and quantitative change in the degree of
development of the productive forces characterizing Israel in the after-
math of the 1967 War.

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