Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 216)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 216)

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laxgely composed of two main forces: masses of peasants actually and
potentially proletarlanized; and the class of locai and absentee
Palestinian landlords.
Nevertheless, the class of indigenous rural bourgeoisie, the Heads
of Hamulas, had also undergone significant changes. The social and
political power this class had previously enjoyed was’ severely
curtailed during British colonialism.
The leadership status this class traditionally held was not only
due to its economic power, i.e., its ownership of the village land.
The whole structure of Palestine's pre-capitalist economy in late 19th
and early 20th century was in fact built around the village/Hamiule
economy.
With the development of a market economy and the expropriation and
proletarianization of the fallaheen, the land and the village
cultivators were no longer within the sphere of control and influence
of this class. The peasants who were forced out of thelr land, and
consequently out of their village, became the subjects of new economic
forces and gradually distanced themselves from the dominant role of
the traditional leadership enjoyed by the Heads of Hamulas.
Finally, while the stunting effects of colonial capitalism on the
development of the rural Palestinian economy have begun to reshape the
latter's classes, a new structural reality has emerged
simultaneously. A strong European (Jewish) capitalist economy with
some peculiar characteristics, next chapter will show, began to
gradually but intensively predominate over Palestine's rural
traditional economy. However, the mechanisms used in reproducing the
capitalist predominant mode of production, as this chapter has in part
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Nahla Abdo-Zubi

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