The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 554)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 554)
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increasing in recent years, owing to labor shortages (as kibbutznics consti-
tute the core of Israel's defense army), as well as to the tendency of kib-
butz capital to concentrate for economies of scale and other considerations.
Kibbutznics as wage earners outside their own kibbutz represent a very
complex phenomenon. Simultaneously, they form a part of the bourgeoisie/
petty bourgeoisie as members in their kibbutz and perhaps part of the prole-
tariat outside its boundaries. Their situation presents a challenge to the
accepted criteria of class determination. The apparent ambiguity in their
class-location may simulate what Olin Wright refers to as "contradictory
location between the petty bourgeoisie and proletariat in the process of the
proletarianization of the petty bourgeoisie." If so, it refutes our argu-
ment regarding the immunity against proletarianization implied in kibbutz
membership. Otherwise, it raises questions regarding the ceasing of the
kibbutz to be; that is, regarding the withering-away of the kibbutz essence
and the remaining of its mere appearance.
The latter is not a question to remain in the realm of theoretical de-
bate. In reality, specifically following the 1967 War, employment of kib-
butznic labor by another kibbutz has been widely practiced in the context of
two modes of inter-kibbutz cooperation:
(1) cooperation based on manpower and capital investment;
(2) inter-kibbutz cooperation based on manpower alone.
Both forms of inter-kibbutz manpower-based cooperation are to be viewed as
the result of the increased industrialization of the kibbutz, and/or the con-
centration of kibbutz industrial capital in the post-1967 period.
A concrete example of the first type of cooperation is the Hazore'a
wood industry in kibbutz Hazore'a. It started in partnership with a private - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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