The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 500)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 500)
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workers, citizens and non-citizens of Israel. They are members of a nation-
ally oppressed people, oppressed precisely by the ideological/political
superstructure to which their Jewish co-workers belong. They are denied
not only their political rights for national self-determination, but also
many civil rights except for the ones that legitimize the existing system
of power (voting, for example). Owing to their different relation to the
State superstructure, they cannot form independent political organizations,
not even labor unions.
These relations are reproduced in the division of labor, in terms of
relations of ideological and political domination/subordination between Jew-
ish and Arab workers.
Ideological and political domination/subordination is the criterion for
what Poulantzas identifies as the structural determination of class loca-
tion (recall discussion on the boundaries of social classes in Chapter III).
It seems an appropriate criterion for ranking the ethnic/national com-
position of the proletariat in Israel. In general, one can say that in the
Jewish State the relation of Jews to Arabs (even among the working class)
is one of domination/subordination. This, however, must not be taken to
imply that Jewish citizens are homogeneous in their relations to the ideo-
logical/political superstructure and, therefore, in the relation of domina-
tion/subordination with regard to the Palestinian-Arab citizens.
Until the sixties, seniority in the country was a determinant of poli-
tical power and social status. The early settlers, once the vanguards of
Zionism, and therefore by virtue of their special relation to the State,
have exercised more political power than Oriental-Jews and recent Western
immigrants. They ranked highest on the scale of political/ideological - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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