The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 148)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 148)

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boundaries as distinct social formations.
Under colonialism, proletarianization, for the most part, preceded the
emergence of a local bourgeoisie. The introduction of commercialized agri-
culture and plantation economy was imposed by colonial powers through the
penetration of capital; distorting the traditional relations of production,
—__—with-a-eensctious- effort not to aliow for the generalization of the capital-
ist relations within the colony (classic examples are Malaysia, the Carib-
beans and East Africa, where the British imported Chinese and Indian labor
to be proletarianized in the rubber and other plantations, keeping intact
the local social structure). Colonial powers are not interested in develop-
ing a competitor local industrial bourgeoisie, but rather in maintaining
the colony as a market for their own manufactured goods, and as a pool of
cheap resources.
Under neo-colonialism, distinguished by the drive for a capital market,
local industrialization and the emergence of a dependent bourgeoisie become
indispensable for the extended reproduction of capitalism on a world scale.
Proletarianization occurs directly through foreign capital penetration, or
through a local bourgeoisie, whose very existence is dependent on the inter-
national bourgeoisie. In this case, capitalist relations predominate, sub-
ject to the logic of capitalist accumulation on a world scale. It does not
culminate, however, in the generalization of capitalist relations to the
entire mass of immediate producers.® On the contrary, an underdeveloped
"traditional" sector is deliberately maintained and distorted to provide
for the development of the "modern" sectors. The largest proportion of
immediate producers is linked indirectly to the capitalist accumulation
process, and hence, impoverished without proletarianization: they are

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