The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 43)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 43)
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cross-wound by Zionist practices in Palestine, unwinds precisely follow-
ing the 1967 war. It is neither accidental that the war itself had also
occurred in that particular conjuncture. The association between the
1967 war and the unfolding of Palestinian proletarianization by Israeli
capital is not one of cause and effect. This association rather denotes
that the causes underlying both the burst of the war and the proletarian-
ization of Palestinians lie in ghe specificity of the relationship of
the productive forces and the relations of production in that particular
time and space.
An explanation of the proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel
today requires that forces underlying the emerging demand for Palestin-
ian labor in the Israeli economy be identified and examined against
forces that seem to have had historically impeded this process,
Such an explanation is sought in the logic of capitalist accumula-
tion, specifically the essentially uneven development of capitalism in-
herent in the fundamental tendency of the organic composition of capital
to rise.>’ The rising tendency of the organic composition of capital in-
volves the intrinsically contradictory relationship between capital and
labor. It also denotes the contradictory unity of the forces and the
relations of production under capitalism and clearly presents capital as
essentially a relation, not a thing. It is this tendency, accompanied
by the necessary competition involved in capitalist accumulation that
explains why capitalist development is intrinsically uneven: leads to-
wards concentration and centralization, speeds up class formation, and
requires the integration of less developed economic formations and their
subordination to more developed ones, which the essential international- - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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