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In his valuable research, Dr. Jalal Zein El A’bideen discusses the effect of European and French colonialism and its social setbacks in the Western Arab region. He points out how the land was seized from the Moroccan farmers sometimes by killing the owners or through the laws devised according to the interest of the colonialist. Even the measures of the French modernization in Morocco were meant to convert the Moroccan farmer who was free holding over his possessions into a worker for the colonialist authority or the subservient feudalists. The French colonization had caused belts of misery of the farmers who migrated to the cities either because they had lost their land possessions or because they were unable to compete anymore with the modernized agriculture run by the colonialist government. Therefore, the social structure had become disintegrated and unable to consolidate in order to encounter the colonialist after the tribe heads had converted into feudalists or because of the tribe structural disintegration. An agricultural system was devised in accordance with the French market needs, so the farmer did not only lose his land but he also lost his work power due to lawful despotism which reproduced Moroccan proletariat which was in turn the nucleus for the worker movements later on.
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