The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 266)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 266)

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Over the last two centuries or so, no country was able to modernize without
some kind of serious institutional or state support. This support was/is needed even
more by the primarily agricultural economies. Thus, the dualist idea that the Arab
economy failed to modernize is ahistorical and out of context with existing
conditions.
In conclusion, the use of modern intensive techniques of production and
wage labor in agriculture by the European settlers was introduced from the
beginning of the Mandate period. “It was a capitalist society from birth; or, if not
quite then, as soon as it could crawl.”* In other words, it was not the result of a
process of socioeconomic change and modernization among the settlers. Rather it
was necessitated by the need for settler farmers to have a sufficient income that
would allow them to stay in the country. In the pre-Mandate period, thousands of
European Jewish settlers left the country because they were unable to eke out a
living.
The ideological calling to “redeem the land” and “reconstitute the nation”
proved not good enough. Thus, the need for and the start of a different form of
agricultural settlement, the mixed farm, whether collective, cooperative, or
completely private that were sustained, in differing degrees, by institutional
support, which provided resources and agricultural know-how.
This phrase was borrowed from a description of capitalist development in the
United States by Douglas Dowd, The Twisted Dream (Cambridge: Winthrop
Publishers, 1974), 47.
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