The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 551)
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- The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 551)
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the essentially uneven development of capitalism in Palestine.
Transformations in the class nature of the kibbutz community can occur
only in the embourgeoisment direction: kibbutznics becoming a faction of
the bourgeoisie, representing more the national and less the compradore
Israeli bourgeoisie.
It is a well known claim that, owing to its essentially labor-Zionist
ideological base, the kibbutz possesses an immunity against embourgeoisment 5;
transformation into the bourgeoisie itself. However, the contrary is evident
in retrospect, the kibbutznic labor force seems immuned precisely against
prletarianization. It is by virtue of their equal share in the collective
ownership or possession of the means of production and consumption that the
latter type of immunity prevails. Once the principle of self-labor is trans-
lated into Hebrew work, hired labor is legitimized and the kibbutz is trans-
formed into a bourgeois collective. This is to say, eventually it becomes a
collective capitalist enterprise.
Since its very inception, the kibbutz has had to cope with this paradox
of hiring labor without an embourgeoisment effect. In kibbutz Hazore'a, for
example, one of the early industrialized kibbutzim, an interesting resolution
was concluded: to use hired labor in construction, arguing that in the kib-
butz, housing is not a commodity; therefore, construction labor does not in-
volve creation of surplus-value. It can, however, replace the kibbutznics,
whose labor can then be more fully devoted to industrial production not for
direct consumption.!
It is important to remember that such ingenious adaptation was possible
only earlier, when the kibbutznics were still proficient in Marxism and when
the ideological-political instances still predominated the economic.
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- المنشئ
- Najwa Hanna Makhoul
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