The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 62)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 62)

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Introduction
In this chapter we wish to argue that Zionism is a Jewish conscious-
ness arising from material conditions of Jewish life in Diaspora subject to
uneven development of capitalism. This consciousness corresponds to the
class interest and aspirations of the Jewish bourgeoisie in the transition-
al phase of capitalism in the metropolis from its stage of competition to
the stage of monopoly: the need for a Jewish State to intervene on its
behalf in the face of monopclistic competition.
The rise of Zionism coincides with the rise of capitalist settler-
colonialism that emerged from the process of monopoly formation in the
late nineteenth century, specifically from the displacement effects of
capital combination, swallowing small capital and hence, undermining the
material conditions of the petty bourgeoisie as a social class.
Capitalist settler-colonialism, as in the case of Rhodesia, for exam-
ple, is distinguished here from pre-capitalist settler and non-settler
colonialism during mercantilism (as was the case in white settler America
and Australia). Capitalist settler colonialism is seen as one of three
forms of foreign domination that emerged subject to the logic of capitalist
accumulation on a world scale. The other forms are colonialism, featuring
the age of competitive capitalism and neo-colonialism, featuring the age
of monopoly. Settler-colonialism is a form featuring the transitional
phase in-between the two stages of capitalism.
That Israel constitutes a settler-colonial social formation is not
the subject of our debate but its starting point. This essentially set-
tler-colonial character is the necessary context for understanding Zionism

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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