The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 74)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 74)

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nant mode of accumulation), precisely through monopoly formation, becomes
the foremost steering factor for secessionist settler colonialism. Seces-
sionist settler colonialism, therefore, conforms both with the struggle of
the petty bourgeoisie and small capitalist against extinction, and the im-
perative of political stability for metropolitan big bourgeoisie in the
face of increased intensity of internal contradictions in monopoly capital.
Hence comes the urge to export this potentially risky "surplus" population
to settle new lands. To substantiate the latter, it is best to quote Cecil
Rhodes (after whom white settler colonial Rhodesia is named), expressing
his imperialist ideas in 1885:
"I was in the East End of London yesterday and attended a
meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches,
which were just a cry for 'bread', 'bread', 'bread', and on
my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than
ever convinced of the importance of imperialism....My cher-
ished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in
order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom
from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire
new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new
markets for the goods produced by them in the factories and
mines..." 7
A French bourgeois writer, developing and supplementing these ideas of
Cecil Rhodes, writes that social causes should be added to the economic
causes of modern colonial policy:
"Owing to the growing difficulties of life which weigh not
only on the masses of the workers, but also on the middle
classes, impatience, irritation and hatred are accumulating
in all the countries of the old civilisation and are becoming
a menace to public order; employment must become for the
energy which is being hurled out of the definite class channel;
it must be given an outlet abroad in order to avert an explo-
sion at home." 8
The quotations above do clearly express the vested interest of the
metropolitan bourgeoisie in secessionist-settler colonialism. This, however,

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