The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 168)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 168)
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the indigenous pre-capitalist social formation. If Zionist settler-colonial-
ism was, like white settler-colonialism in Africa, merely the export of set-
tlers with capital, and of capitalist relations of production, it could have
been not only unnecessary to uproot the indigenous social formation, but to
do so would have been economically detrimental for a planter Jewish aristo-
cracy's ability to prosper and survive.
But this was not the case with Jewish settlers in Palestine, as they
were the vanguards of socialist Zionism, committed to Jewish class formation
and struggle; their socialist Zionist ideals come in contradiction with the
Palestinian reality, with the Palestinian social formation. In order to be-
come a normal society, they had to deform and replace the indigenous.
Having, in the previous chapter, determined the bourgeois essence of
Borochovism, specifically the bourgeois aim of the Borochovist socialist
Zionist strategy of labor in the theoretical sphere, we divert our attention
in reviewing the practices of Zionist colonization to examine the extent to
which Borochovism was actually implemented.
Furthermore, in the proceeding we must keep in mind that Jewish settle-
ment was never a squatting phenomenon, a spontaneous takeover of land in
Palestine. It was rather an implementation of a pre-planned political pro-
gram, guided by a clear commitment, a specific strategy, aiming at a well-
defined goal: a bourgeois Jewish State.
Jewish settlement in Palestine is, therefore, to be conceived as the
implementation of a most comprehensive development plan; development at the
level of social formation. Only if we grasp the complexity and contradic~
tions inherent in this intricate colonization program, may we comprehend
the dynamics of its implementation process (Jewish settlement itself) and - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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