The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 117)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 117)

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Jewish capitalist tends to lay-off Jewish workers and replace them with Gen-
tiles, a tendency which Borochov condemns as "Jewish anti-Semitism" of the
assimilationist Jewish bourgeoisie. In his words:
"...The Jewish manufacturer who is about to become a big
capitalist wants to sever, as soon as possible, his relations
with the Jewish community from which he emerged. He does it
for two reasons. He wants to conquer the Gentile market and
be on the same footing with the Gentile manufacturer. His
Jewishness is in this respect a disadvantage, since his com-
petitors refuse to recognize him as equal. He is, therefore,
eager to display his goyish (non-Jewish) patriotism...He is
anxious to employ Gentile workers and managers, to as great
an extent as possible, restrict his commercial intercourse
to Gentiles because he wants to identify himself with his
Gentile competitor and rid himself of Jewish public control....
The Jewish employer, upon introducing steam power into his fac-
tory (the symbol of large-scale production), substitutes the
Gentile for the Jewish worker." 91
In these words, Borochov is emphasizing the impossibility of the develop-
ment of Jewish capitalist/proletariat class relations in Diaspora; and there-
fore of political class struggle in Jewish life of the Galut, Jewish class
struggle remains "economic class struggle". He is not, however, denying Jewish
proletarianization by Gentile capital. As a matter of fact, Borochov cannot
deny the latter, as he explicitly asserts that his Zionism expresses the objec-
tive movement and interests of an already existing Jewish working class, and
not that of a potential one, and it is from this very "starting point" -that he
claims his is a proletarian Zionism. This assertion, as Bober points out,
"occupies such a central position in Borochovist theory that without it the
theory loses even its formal claim as proletarian Zionism and becomes ordinary
Zionism."
Defending this point, Borochov explicitly states:
"Tf it were the case that the interests of the Jewish bour-
geoisie and of the masses standing on the verge of proletarian-
ization led them to territorialism, while the interests of the
Jewish proletariat were not connected with territorialisn,
then there would be no grounds for saying that the future of
the entire Jewish people is also the future of the Jewish prole-

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