The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 115)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 115)

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that the large country-masses whose strength lies in the work
of their hands will not be our own even then. And this would
completely change the nature and aims of Zionism...." 88
In these words, Achad Ha'am, like Gordon, also expresses the impor-
tance of the Jews' return to the soil, to manual labor, regardless of being
wage-earners or self-employed. He is indifferent to the question of exploi-
tation of Jewish labor, as long as there are Jewish rural masses as a basis
for the Jewish State; Jewish workers who cultivate the land, and therefore
acquire the right to it. Unlike Gordon's mechanical view of the role of
Jewish labor in Zionism, Achad Ha'am views this role in a more historical
way. Without productively laboring Jewish workers, "the national ideal is
incapable of creating those inner powers so necessary for our cause...."
This is a much more dynamic conception of the labor strategy in Zionism.
Achad Ha'am, however, leaves unclear why and how this is a condition for the
cause of Zionism. The only thing that is made absolutely clear in both
Gordon's and Achad Ha'am's ideas is the role of Jewish labor in the realiza-
tion of Zionism through acquiring the right to land by working the land.
In Borochovism, the notion of labor in the Zionist strategy is a much
more profound one. In The Role of the Proletariat in the Realization of Ter-
. . 4s 8 . . .
ritorialism, 9 Borochov refers not merely to territorial gains, and speaks
not only of self-labor, but also of productive labor under capitalism, that
is, he speaks specifically of the role of the proletariat, of exploited mod-
ern wage workers in the realization of territorialism, that is, the Zionist
solution to the Jewish question within a bourgeois nation-state. This is
different from the emphasis on self-labor (non-exploitation of other labor)
merely for claiming the land. The difference between Borochov's and the
latter is, indeed, the difference between the two Zionist slogans: "The Con-
quest of Jewish Land" (Kibbush Hakark'a, or Ha'adamah) and "The Conquest of

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