The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 572)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 572)

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circumstances that centre in this, viz., that two very
different kinds of commodity-possessors must come face-to-
face into contace; on the one hand, the owners of money,
means of production, means of subsistence, who are eager
to increase the sum of values they possess by buying other
people's labor power; on the other hand, free laborers, the
sellers of their own labor power, and therefore, the sellers
of labor...With this polarisation of the market for commodi-
‘ties, the fundamental conditions of capitalist production
are given. The capitalist system pre-supposes the complete
separation of the laborers from all property in the means
by which they can realise their labor. As soon as capital-
ist production is on its own legs, it not only maintains this
separation, but reproduces it on a continually extending scale.
The process, therefore, that clears the way for the capitalist
system can be none other than the process which takes away
from the laborer the possession of his means of production,
a process that transforms, on the one hand, the social means
of subsistence and of production into capital; on the other
hand the immediate producer into wage laborer. The so-called
primitive accumulation is, therefore, nothing else than the
historical process of divorcing the producer from the means of
production...The starting point of the development that gave
rise to the wage laborer as well as to the capitalist was the
servitude of the laborer." 22
The analysis Marx provides explains how the 1967 military occupation
. intensified the capitalist transformation of the Israeli economy, including
even its co-operative and collective semi-subsistence agriculture. How,
consequently, the simultaneous availability of Palestinian sellers of labor
for any price, and of Jewish possessors of rural "national" land resulted
in capitalist relations of production; these Palestinians (as the case in
transformation of all producers into wage workers) became "free" sellers
of themselves only after they have been robbed of all their own means of
production and all other guarantees of subsistence. This is another way
of saying that proletarianization is essentially the alternative for no
other choice. It is the entire separation of the direct producer from the
object and means of labor. It is this decisive modification of the place
of the direct producer in the capitalist (as compared to pre-capitalist)

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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