The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 143)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 143)

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class of wage-workers which is what we mean by proletarianization. Prole-
tarianization, therefore, goes beyond the separation of producers from their
means of subsistence. It further involves the separation of laborers from
their own labor power, the exchange of that labor power against capital, re-
sulting in class formation and struggle. This involves the emergence of a
bourgeoisie and a proletariat as distinct social forces with distinct class
interests that are intrinsically antagonistic. Such class formation is in-
dispensable to capitalist accumulation, and its outcome.
As Marx explains, for capitalist accumulation to work two different
kinds of commodity possessors must come face to face: on the one hand, own-
ers of money, means of production, who are eager to increase their capital
by buying other people's labor; on the other hand, "free" laborers, the sel-
lers of their ability to work, their labor power. Free laborers in the sense
of being neither part and parcel of the means of property as in the case of
slaves, nor owning or possessing any means of production as the source of
their exploitation, as in the case of the peasant proprietor. They are there-
fore "free" and unencumbered by any means of production of their own. This
"freedom", however, is coercive. Generally, the emergence of "free" laborers
has been the outcome of a cruel and violent process throughout the history of
capitalism.” Historically, free labor constituted one of the prerequisites
for wage labor, which is, in turn, the condition for capital. As Marx states
in his Pre-capitalist Economic Formations:
"One of the prerequisites of wage labor and one of the histori-
cal conditions for capital is free labor and the exchange of
free labor against money.... Another prerequisite is the separa-
tion of free labor from the objective conditions of its reali-
zation - from the means and material of labor. This means above
all that the worker must be separated from the land, which func-
tions as his natural laboratory...." 4
In this sense, wage-labor implies freedom to own, and also freedom to

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