The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 441)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 441)

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In his re-interpretation of Marx, Poulantzas defines productive
labor in the capitalist mode of production as
",.labour that produces surplus-value while directly
reproducing the material elements that serve as the sub-
stratum of the relation of exploitation: labour that is
directly involved in material production by producing use-
values that increases material wealth...that valorizes
capital and is exchanged against capital...Labor with the
same content may be productive or unproductive. And what
is productive under one mode of production may not be so
for another...The concrete content of labor and its use-
value are completely indifferent for productive labor."
In Marx's own words:
"...Every time that labour is purchased, not in order to
substitute it as the living factor in the value of variable
capital, but in order to consume it as a use value, i.e., a
service, this labour is not productive labour and the wage-
labourer is not a productive worker...the capitalist does
not confront him as a capitalist, as the representative of
capital; what he exchanges for the labour is not his capi-
tal, but his revenue, in the form of money." 44
According to these theoretical arguments, wage-earners in commerce,
advertising, accounting, insurance, and all financing and business services,
are not directly exploited in the form of the dominant capitalist relations
of exploitation, the creation of surplus value, and therefore, do not form
part of the working class.
Even service employees who contribute to the reproduction of labor
power (hairdressers, lawyers, teachers, doctors, etc.) remain unproductive
labor outside the boundaries of the working class. The same applies to
public and community service employees who greatly contribute to the re-
production of capitalist social relations (agents of the State apparatus,
civil servants, teachers of State schools, and medical personnel of the
public sector, etc.)
In the case of the latter, capital does not intervene directly to

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel

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1978

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Najwa Hanna Makhoul

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