The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 144)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 144)

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sell, one's own labor power. Proletarianization is, therefore, a two-fold
process that presupposes the availability of both sellers and buyers of la-
bor power, simultaneously. It can be said to have a supply side and a de-
mand side to it: the creation of labor surplus, and the absorption of
this surplus in commodity production as a commodity. It is one of the
peculiarities of capitalism that labor power becomes, itself, a commodity
and can produce value only as a commodity that has an exchange value. Marx's
statement, "the expropriation of people from the soil forms the basis of the
capitalist mode of production...the prelude to the history of capital",> im-
plies, therefore, that wage-labor (conditioned by free labor, which is, in
turn, the result of separation from means of production) is, itself, a con-
dition for capital in its productive form. The latter is important. It
means that proletarianization is linked to capital in production only, but
not to capital in circulation. It is, thus, a feature of capitalist accumu-
lation in the sphere of production, as distinguished from capital activity
in the sphere of circulation.
That proletarianization is peculiar only to one form of capital, namely
productive capital, simultaneously as an effect of it and the condition for
it, is strongly emphasized in the Marxist theory:
"One of the most obvious peculiarities of the movement in
the circuits of industrial capital, and therefore of capi-
talist production, is the fact that on the one hand the com-
ponent elements of productive Capital are derived from the
commodity market and must be continually renewed out of it,
though, as commodities and that on the other hand the pro-
duct of the labor-process emerges from it as a commodity and
must be continually sold anew as a commodity. Therefore,
Capitalist production cannot reach its full scope until the
direct agricultural producer becomes a wage-laborer; the
money relation between the buyer and the seller becomes a
relation inherent in production; but has its foundation in
the social character of production, not in the mode of ex-
change.'"" 6 (emphasis added)

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