The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 313)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 313)

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Besides its heavy subsidization, which allowed for intensive methods of
production, Jewish European agriculture enjoyed institutional support in every
aspect of agricultural settlement in addition to whatever benefits it derived from the
government in material form or in tariff exemptions on raw materials or
machinery. Arab peasants, as a whole, on the other hand, received only meager
support from the government, and their methods of production remained primarily
extensive. The costs of more intensive methods of production were beyond the
means of most peasants. However, under the impact of increased
commercialization and commoditization fuelling and fuelled by changes in land
tenure, there developed in Arab rural areas those who introduced or extended more
intensive methods of production in varying degrees. In other words, the distinction
should be made between the “modernization” of agriculture as a whole and of
“modernization” by certain strata in rural areas.
During the Mandate, the appropriation of surplus from the peasantry
intensified in all its forms—within the production process, through taxation, and by
usury. This occurred in the context of increased commercialization and
commoditization, which had a various impact on the peasantry and which
accelerated their differentiation. Although because of a lack of complete data, we
were unable to assign exact numbers to all the different strata of the peasantry,
there was sufficient information derived from official government data and from
our own inquiry into the developments in the techniques of production and of the
nature and growth of agricultural output to unmistakably establish the
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