The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 571)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 571)
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What is peculiar about this process is that by virtue of mere posses-
sion of land and not actual economic ownership of the means of production
Jewish "farmers" are now hiring labor for profit, for capital accumulation;
a situation not much different from processes occurring during the land en-
closures in the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe.
It was then the rentiers, not the propertiers, who were first to make
a profit in the process of primitive accumulation by means of employing non-
family labor on that rented land. It can be said in both cases, of these
rentiers and these Jewish leasers, that it was precisely the time-limitness
of access (in the form of possession) to the land underlying the urge to
maximize its use through profit-making. It is, in other words, the fear of
proletarianization that the consolidation of capitalism generates, that
urged Jewish farmers in that critical moment (1967, which represents a
turning point in the capitalist transformation of the Israeli economy) to
redefine their relation to the "national land" they possessed as one of
ownership, in an attempt to form part of the bourgeoisie.
This strategic move obviously represents a choice of a particular
class transformation. Unlike that, proletarianization is never the result
of one's own choice. How did this capitalist transformation of semi-sub-
sistence Jewish rural Israel occur? And what has transformed co-operative
land from a means of subsistence into capital? To answer these questions
is to recall Karl Marx on primitive accumulation, in which the transforma-
tion of the means of subsistence into capital takes place, and how through
capital surplus-value is made and from surplus-value, more capital. Marx
writes:
"This transformation can only take place under certain - تاريخ
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