Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 242)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 242)

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increased greatly over this span of time: From 11,540 people to 37,250
or by over 240 per cent between 1522 and 1931. One decade later, i.e.,
from 1931 to 1941,the population of the Moshavot increased by abcut
280 per cent.
Their relative population, however, declined. This is largely
attributable to the development of Moshav and Kibbutz forms of
settlements.
Zionism and "Workers' Co-operatives"
The extensive body of literature on the co-operatives is largely
inaccurate and deficient. By lumping together all forms of co-
operative settlements, the literature fails to account for the
fundamental difference between the Kibbutz and the Moshav as well as
the differences within the Moshavs themselves. Authors have also
ignored the actual and potential social contradictions inherent in
these forms of production.
Virtually all uncritical writers present these co-operatives as
"socialists" or "primitive communist" communities or even, in one
case, as the "ideal society for the fulfillment of human dream".
(Tabenkin,1985; Bettelheim,1971; Rinehart,1971; Eisenstadt,1985;
Spiro,1972) Yet, as various authors have correctly noticed, the co-
opera*ives have always been integral parts of the capitalist mode of
production (Rayman,198l;abu-Rjeyli,1970). To this analysis we will now
turn.
A common set of assumptions shared by most Israeli and other
romanticizers of these forms of labour organizations involves the two
fundamental components of these settlements, landed property and wage
labour.
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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation

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Nahla Abdo-Zubi

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