The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 40)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 40)
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ascendency of class or class fraction, Class formation takes place in
class struggle, the motor force of history. Class formation, therefore,
necessarily involves change in both quantitative and qualitative terms.
It involves quantitative change in the degree of development of the pro-
ductive forces at the disposal of society, and qualitative change in the
relations of production dominant in society. The interaction between the
forces of production and the relations of production is thus the context
in which class formation occurs. This interaction represents necessarily
a contradictory unity of materially opposing tendencies in which the rela-
tions of production predominate. The formation of classes as social for-
ces in class struggle signifies a new balance of forces, the emergence of
new historical phases.
The development of a new historical phase means change in the condi-
tions of the material life of a social formation ("society"). These con-
ditions are essentially determined by the way people go about procuring
their means of subsistence (food, clothing, housing, and instruments of
production, etc.), i.e., by the method used for maintaining and reprodu-
cing their existence; that is, the dominant mode of production. Each
successive historical phase is characterized by the dominance of a new
form in the existing mode of production, or of a new mode. A mode of pro-
duction consists of two components: the productive forces (labor, instru-
ments of labor, skill, technology, etc.) and relations of production (the
way in which people and things are related (as expressed in the patterns
of ownership and the division of labor, etc.). Expressed in these terms,
development can be said to be the byproduct of the interaction of the pro-
ductive forces and relations of production. For social formation to re- - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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