The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 108)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 108)

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To proceed more systematically, we start with the Marxist theory of
the State, specifically, the bourgeois State; then we show how Borochov mani-
pulates this theory for formulating a bourgeois, not a proletarian, strategy.
(a) The Marxist Conception of the Statet
On the origins of the State, Frederick Engels says:
"It [the State] is a product of society at a certain stage of
development; it is the admission that this society has become
entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it
has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is power-
less to dispel. But in order that these antagonisms and clas-
ses with conflicting economic interests might not consume them-
selves and society in a fruitless struggle, it became necessary
to have a power seemingly standing above society that would
alleviate the conflict, and keep it within the bounds of "order";
and this power, arisen out of society but placing itself above
it, and alienating itself more and more from it, is the State." 75
As quoted above, Engels points out the existence of a relation between
the State and political class domination and the political class struggle.
He also shows that the relation of the State to political class domination
reflects the ensemble of the contradictions of society.
The term society seems to refer here to the concept of social formation
defined by Poulantzas as:
"...a complex unity of instances [the economic, political and
ideological]....A social formation which is historically deter-
mined consists of an overlapping of several modes of production,
one which holds the dominant role, and it therefore presents
more classes than the pure mode of production....Social forma-
tions are in actual fact the sites of the reproduction process;
they are the nodes of uneven development of the relationship of
modes and forms of production within the class struggle." 76
In this sense, the State as defined by Engels is related to the contra-
dictions peculiar to the various levels of a formation, but only in so far as
it represents the place where the articulation of these levels is reflected
and where their contradictions are condensed. It is the admission of "the

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