Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 24)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 24)

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Colonial Capitalism and Third World Economies:
Some Theoretical Considerations
The task of analysing the social, economic and political structure
of Palestine's economy prior to its subjugation to British and Zionist
colonialism, is indispensable for the comprehension of the processes
of change and development that this economy underwent in the early
twentieth century.
The question of whether or not either pre-capitalist economies or
colonial economies are capable of generating changes from within has
been hotly debated amongst Marxist and non~Marxist scholars aiike. At
the centre of this debate is the issue of the character and nature of
pre-capitalist economies.
Most non-Marxist literature on this issue adheres to the notion
that change in late-developing societies is possible only through the
intervention of external forces. Support for this argument, however,
tends to be drawn from largely subjective factors. One such factor is
the notion of *peasant culture' which is comprised of the attitudes,
norms and values of the ‘peasants' or ‘peoples' of these societies
(Bil1l,1972; Weber, 1968; Shanin, 1971; Eisenstadt,1985). It is argued
that these normative values, present obstacles to mobility and change
within Third World countries.
Within the context of the Middle East, the "Mosaic Model," to use
Bryan Turner's words (Turner 1978), was the predominant approach of
the Orientalists. The ‘Islamic' state, according to the classical
orientalists, is composed of a mixture of conflicting groups
hierarchically divided on religious, sectarian, ethnic, occupational
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