Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 54)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 54)

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to say that the Palestinian experience of change and develcepment
Gemonstrates a more complex phenomenon than can be understood through
Simple capitalist calculations.
The understanding of class struggle is instrumental to ‘he
understanding of Palestine's capitalist history. As Chapter Six will
demonstrate, the colonial settler history of capitalist development in
Palestine was not only a history of capitalist domination but also
a..-history of peasant and class resistance. Palestine's colonial
history was accompanied by various waves of political movements) and
resistance from the 1920 widespread demonstrations to the 1936-39
revolution, and including the 1929 peasant revolt and the 1933 "anti-
imperialist" revolt.
Capitalist Transformation in Palestine: A Historical Materialist
Approach
The roots of the socio-economic changes which took place in
Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century lie in the
specific social and historical place Palestine occupied under the
Ottoman rule. These changes were not the products of so-called
external forces, imported or imposed by British colonialism or by the
Zionist settler movement, but rather the products of a dialectical
process rooted in the past and intensified further by the presence of
colonial settlement.
The Ottoman state cannot be characterised as a unified, homogeneous
political economy with socio-economic uniformity amcng the various
social formations under its control. Despite its vast territorial
expanse, countries under its control retained some specific historical
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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation

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Nahla Abdo-Zubi

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