Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 22)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 22)

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Zionist settler movement from other settier movements, as in South
Africa and Rhodesia.
With the extensive data initially prepared for Chapter Five we
have expected to conclude our study at this point, on the assumption
that the major issue, namely, colonial capitalism and rural class
formation had been properly addressed. However, a further examination
of the data suggested that the treatment of class relations which
developed in the process must be attended to more carefully.
Chapter Six is devoted to examining the capital/labour relationship
in its complex reality. The data provided in this chapter tend to
provide an alternative approach to the “half class" theory advocated
by various scholars (Wolpe,1980; Burawoy,1976; Zureik,1979; Carmi and
Posenfeld, 1985) who view the proletarian class, mainly, as an
economic agent. However, as our empirical evidence shows, the role of
this class has assumed an additional dimension as a social and
political force capable of taking part in the history wf change.
The Palestinian experience of colonial capitalism, reveals a
specific set of relationships between the various sources involved in
generating capital, i.e., the colonial government, the European Jewish
capitalist settlers and, to a lesser extent, the indigenous
Palestinians on the one hand, and the two major working classes,
indigenous proletarians and European Jewish working class on the
other. In variance to the classical Marxist formulation on class
formation, our empirical data on such process in the Palestinian
context suggest the rise of class structures differentiated and
fragmented along ethnic and ideological lines.
Finally, adding the Chapter on labour relations, we hope, would be
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