The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 163)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 163)

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one hand, it requires a capitalist economy, as proletarianization necessari-
ly presupposes capitalist relations of production. This proletarianization
is to take place in the context of settler-colonialism, hence the "conquest
of land" prerequisite. The conquest of Palestinian land implies necessari-
ly the displacement of Palestinian peasantry, the dispossession of the in-
digenous immediate producers, and an abundance of native labor surplus;
thus, cheap labor conducive to the extraction of super profits.
Under these conditions, and subject to the logic of capitalist accu-
mulation (given that capital is a secular relation abiding by no religion
but profitability), Palestinian labor was more competitive than Jewish. To
create an exclusive Jewish proletariat it was therefore necessary that the
capitalist economy of the Jewish settlers be "closed", closed to nonJews,
specifically native labor, the rationale for the main Zionist slogan,
"Hebrew labor", prohibiting the employment of Arab labor in Jewish agricul-
ture and industry. But a capitalist economy cannot develop as a closed sys-~
tem; capitalist accumulation and the extended reproduction of capital has
been historically conditioned by subordinating and subjecting less-—develop-
ed pre-capitalist social formations as the sites for its reproduction. How
did the Labor~Zionist movement accommodate this contradiction? The answer
to this seems to lie in molding the "conquest of labor" principle in the
ambiguous slogan, "self-labor". That the settlers’ economy be a closed
economy in the sense of labor self-sufficiency was explained away as a
negation of the typical colonial practices, which are based on the exploi-
tation of native labor.
The “self-labor" slogan provided for a flexible interpretation:
firstly, reliance on one's own labor, negating the notion of hired labor,

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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