The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 41)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 41)
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produce itself, it is imperative that its productive forces constantly
grow. But the self-reproduction of a social formation is essentially the
reproduction of the existing relations of production characterizing the
prevailing social order. An essential incompatability, therefore, emerges
between the state of development and the requirements of society's produc-
tive forces, on the one hand, and on the other, its existing relations of
production, It follows that in the necessary course of production and
class struggle, the relations of production and the state of development
of the productive forces change, culminating in the emergence of new
epochs, Put differently, in G. Arrighi's words:
"Tt is by focussing on relations of production and the degree
of development of the productive forces that we can show the
differentia specifica of different epochs." 36
It is our central thesis that the year 1967 represents the beginning
of a new epoch in terms of transformation in the relations of production
and the state of development of Israel's productive forces. The emer-
gence of this new epoch denotes class formation of which the proletarian-
ization of Palestinians in Israel is only an aspect, It is in this con-
text that we place the subject of our analysis.
To elaborate, in Israel, the 1965 recession, lasting until the eve
of the 1967 war, represents the point beyond which Israel's productive
forces could no longer develop within the constraint of the existing re-
lationships of production governed by the rules of Labor-Zionism, rules
designed to lead towards competitive capitalism based on Jewish capital
and labor, and hence to appeal to the Jewish petty bourgeoisie as van-
guards of Zionism. This period represented a deep structural crisis
in the relations of production. Along with the development of the State - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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