The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 164)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 164)
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specifically wage-labor, that is, the negation of the capitalist relations
of production; secondly, the reliance on Hebrew work only (Avoda'h Ivrit),
negating not wage-labor per se, but rather the employment of nonJewish wage-
labor, i.e., specifically Arab labor; the latter was made very explicit in
the "Boycott Arab Labor" and "Boycott Arab Produce" slogans and practices.
It advocated the capitalist mode of production to be generalized, but for
Jews only.
It is this dual meaning and practice of "self-labor" that provided for
the accommodation of the contradiction mentioned above. It did so by re-
storing for a segment of the Jewish settlers their petty bourgeois class-
location, by consolidating a sector of the Jewish economy based on self-
employment, on petty commodity forms of production; that is, on pre-capi-
talist relations and/or primitive accumulation. Concretely, the "self-
labor" sector, specifically the co-operative moshav, based precisely on
petty commodity form of production for exchange, as well as the kibbutz at
its stage of primitive capitalist accumulation, constituted the equivalent
of the "traditional sector", a pre-capitalist periphery indispensable for
the essential unevenness of capitalist accumulation in the country-at-
large.
The pre-capitalist sector (the co-operative sector, including the
moshav and the kibbutz) is thus maintained as functionally equivalent to
the so-called “traditional sector" co-existing with, and providing for, the
extended reproduction of the "modern capitalist sector" which is the urban
sector, including the coastal citrus plantations based entirely on a lais-
sez-faire pattern of development.”” This way, the Jewish capitalist econ-
omy can have self-sustained growth as a "closed" economy, closed in the - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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