The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 185)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 185)

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The new notable patrons used their power and influence to assist their
peasant clients in dealing with the state, or in feuds with peasants
attached to other patrons. In return, the peasants supported their patrons
in their political struggle for power. The relations between notables and
peasants appear to have been mutually beneficial. The notable benefited
from his relationship with the peasants by their reinforcing of his power
in his feuds. He was also their money lender, usurer and tax collector.
The peasants on the other hand, benefited from his patronage as he
played the role of their protector in their feuds with other peasants, and
mediated between them and the government. Thus class antagonism was
mitigated by the same factors (mutual interests) which had hindered its
development into open class conflict earlier in the nineteenth century.
Subordination of the political economy of Palestine to western
capitalism entailed, paradoxically, the reinforcement of pre-capitalist
ideologies. While the peasants increasingly worked for capital, they did
so under transformed pre-capitalist forms of productive relations and
ideologies which were manipulated by the notable urban classes as a
means of domination over the countryside for their own interests. The
conditions of peripheral capitalism required a much more active ruling
class hegemony than had been needed in the pre-capitalist era were
becoming increasingly un-applicable in view of the developments which
took place in the country, which had affected mostly the peasants.
Th ial Str re of the Revol
Many of the prevailing accounts of Palestine during the Mandate period
tend to marginalise the role of the Palestinian peasants in the political
Struggle. The peasants are described in some of these accounts as
“traditional, backward and conservative", or “too isolated ignorant and
Sree
4 Musa al-Budeiri, The Palestinian C i ;
97a" peas , P ommunist Party. London,
177

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

تاريخ

1990-10

المنشئ

Sonia Nimr

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