The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 101)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 101)

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kibbutz, the co-operative moshav and the trade union federation (Histadrut).
It is again to be emphasized that such forms are not necessarily to promote
the proletarian cause. It is simply wrong to infer from the socialist appear-
ance and image of the kibbutz, a socialist essence. It is a well-documented
fact that these so-called socialist institutional arrangements were primarily
instruments of colonization serving the interest of the petty bourgeoisie,
not the revolutionary Jewish proletariat. For example, it was clearly indi-
cated already in 1920 by the statement of the program adopted in the first
convention of Histadruth Ha'ovdim (General Federation of Jewish Labor):
"In the first instance, the Histadruth considers its duty
to create a new type of Jewish worker, and to see to it that
while colonization is developing, the Jewish worker who came
into being as a result of this very colonizing process, shall
be assured the place he deserves. The Histadruth includes
all toilers who live by their own labor without exploiting
others; it regulates all matters concerning the working class
in the fields of trade union activities, colonization and
education with the aim of building a Jewish workers' commun-
ity in Palestine." 62
This statement makes it explicit that from its very inception, the
Histadruth was never meant to foster a socialist alternative in Palestine.
This statement testifies to the acceptance of a capitalist society within
which the Histadruth provides labor; "building a Jewish workers’ community
in Palestine'' does not negate the existence of a capitalist class; it may
precisely provide for the very condition of capital,as the existence of wage
labor is the very condition for capital. In this sense, the Histadruth is
primarily to foster the embourgeoisement of a fraction of the de-classed
Jewish petty bourgeoisie, as well as the restoration of other fractions, as
it does not negate self-labor. Most important , as regards wage-labor, is
the explicit emphasis of the Histadruth program to foster the creation of a
Jewish labor aristocracy: "to see to it that the Jewish worker shall be as-

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