Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 27)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 27)

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empirical problems and the new empirical data on the socio-economic
history of Paiestine- suggests that a re-examination of both
frameworks is necessary. As with other studies which reject, on
historical-empirical grounds, the notion of pre-capitalist or peasant
stagnation and stasis (Saleh, 1979; Patnaik, 1983; Chandra, 1981), the
empirical evidence collected about Palestine's pre-capitalist economy
suggests that the Palestinian peasantry was not passive, that their
economy was nct stagnant and that inteznal changes within this economy
did occur prior to British colonialism.
The study of Palestine's economy requires an analytical framework
capable of capturing the essence of that structure as it developed
through time. To pursue this goal, the concepts or the AMP and
"articulation" will be critically examined and their contribution to
the question of transition will be discussed. Special emphasis will be
placed on the character and nature of Third World peasantry a5
depicted by both concepts. This will then be followed by an attempt to
construct an alternative analytical framework, which should be more
appropriate to the actual history of Palestine.
The “Asiatic Mode of Production" Approach
Following Marx, various writers adopted the notion of the "Asiatic
Mode of Production” as an analytical framework to study changes in
Asiatic socio-economic formations. The bulk cf these studies have
focused on large "peasant societies," primarily Indian (Melotti,1977)
and Egyptian (Saed,1975; Amer,1958; Salam,1i985). Most recently,
however, the AMP has been invoked in Marxist studies on pre-capitalist
Palestine (Saed, 1985; Gozansky, 1986). The concept of “Asiatic Mode
of Production" is based on three major characteristics: the
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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation

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Nahla Abdo-Zubi

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