Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 38)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 38)

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“Head of Hamula." The notion that the Palestinian peasant was "free"
stems from the authors' misunderstanding of Palestine's pre-capitalist
structure and, in particular, from their confusion of the concept of
"Mushata" with the predominant form of land tenure Known as’ "Amiri"
which was based on the Hamula/village structure.
Membership in the Hamula/village was not based only on “lineage” or
blood relations but also on social, economic and political obligations
to the Head of the Hamula, who often was the merchant, usurer and
landowner. (3)
The idea that Third World pre-capitalist economies are
characteristically distinct from Western European experience and that
they are changeless, immovable and awaiting their saviour to come from
the outside, however, is not confined to the notion of the AMP. The
description of non-feudal, pre-capitalist economies in a basically
static and ahistoric manner is also found in most neo-marxist
writings, such as the "Dependency" thesis (Frank,1969), the “World
System" approach (Wallerstein,1974) and _ the concept of the
“articulation of modes of production." It is to the latter notion and
the work of its adherents (Rey,1980;1982; Arrighi,1973; Burawoy,1974:
1976; Wolpe,1980) that the following discussion will turn.
The Articulation of Modes of Production Thesis
The idea that any change in Third World countries is possible only
if such a change was imposed from the outside constitutes the
departure point for the notion of "articulation." This idea, similar
to that of the AMP, is »ased on the assumption that Third World
social formations were characteristically distinct from the feudal
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