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A Theory of Forced Labour MigrationConclusion: The Future Has Already Happened

A Theory of Forced Labour Migration: Conclusion: The Future Has Already Happened [This chapter summarises our findings. It resituates and highlights the principal empirical as well as theoretical points. I also introduce new findings and reinterpret some results from a survey conducted upon this labour in the early-nineties. Just as misery transformed European settlers into thingified soldiers furthering imperialist interests, the misery visited upon the Palestinians, the severing of their earning from commuting as the only source of income, transformed many of its dispossessed labourers into guards of imperialism serving as police officers with the co-opted Palestinian Authority. However, the dynamics of capital itself cannot admit the submission or thingification of Palestinians. If it does, it ceases to be a capital in motion. Consequently, Israeli capital has no boundaries limiting the repression it visits upon Palestinians. The revolutionary Palestinian, George Habash, once commented on the Oslo negotiations by saying, ‘we do not count on Arafat’s commitment to Palestinian rights, we count on Zionist commitment to imperialist wars and its recalcitrant position against peace.’ The process will not come to rest. Incessant oppression will remake the grounds for Arab revolutionary consciousness again and again.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Theory of Forced Labour MigrationConclusion: The Future Has Already Happened

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Springer Singapore
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© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
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978-981-15-3199-6
Pages
191 –209
DOI
10.1007/978-981-15-3200-9_9
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[This chapter summarises our findings. It resituates and highlights the principal empirical as well as theoretical points. I also introduce new findings and reinterpret some results from a survey conducted upon this labour in the early-nineties. Just as misery transformed European settlers into thingified soldiers furthering imperialist interests, the misery visited upon the Palestinians, the severing of their earning from commuting as the only source of income, transformed many of its dispossessed labourers into guards of imperialism serving as police officers with the co-opted Palestinian Authority. However, the dynamics of capital itself cannot admit the submission or thingification of Palestinians. If it does, it ceases to be a capital in motion. Consequently, Israeli capital has no boundaries limiting the repression it visits upon Palestinians. The revolutionary Palestinian, George Habash, once commented on the Oslo negotiations by saying, ‘we do not count on Arafat’s commitment to Palestinian rights, we count on Zionist commitment to imperialist wars and its recalcitrant position against peace.’ The process will not come to rest. Incessant oppression will remake the grounds for Arab revolutionary consciousness again and again.]

Published: Jun 3, 2020

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