As Israel grows wealthier, the immiseration of Palestinians becomes more disturbing.
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Your mandate is to preserve democracy and stability, with minimal immiseration.
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Yet for all his bluster, blame for the immiseration of Zimbabwe rests chiefly on his shoulders.
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Most private equity machers with substantial investment portfolios rake profits from the continued immiseration of the poor.
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He never saw tragedy in his country's immiseration, only meddling by outsiders or vicious threats by rivals.
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It can be difficult now to appreciate the degree of immiseration in the nineteenth-century industrial economy.
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The right to lay people off is sacrosanct in America, even if it leads to mass economic immiseration.
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Mr Mugabe never saw tragedy in his country's chaos and immiseration, only meddling by outsiders or vicious threats by rivals.
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A policy of immiseration is a lousy pressure strategy for the West — and an excellent propaganda tool for the mullahs.
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But in fact, expansion of Russia's empire coincides, and not accidentally, with the growing immiseration of large sections of Russia's population.
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What about his most famous prediction—that capitalism inevitably produces immiseration for the poor even as it produces super-profits for the rich?
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"There is now a reckoning with this immiseration of women, and Kavanaugh's enemies are presenting him as representative of this wretched culture," he wrote.
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"Immiseration" is too strong a word to describe the condition of the poor in a country with a welfare state and a minimum wage.
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Despite Trump's supposed appeal of economic populism, repeated studies found no evidence in the data that individual-level economic immiseration drove voting patterns in the 2016 election.
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Perhaps Tocqueville's most brilliant insight (and Mishra, to his credit, cites it) was that revolutions are produced by improved conditions and rising expectations, not by mass immiseration.
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Should billionaires have the right to ungodly sums accumulated through the immiseration of entire populations and the destruction of the ecosystems on which life as we know it depends?
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To the contrary, the "old" socialist party of Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas featured Marxist epithets against capitalist exploitation, immiseration of the working class and capitalist collapse in their publications.
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It's a particularly cruel irony that the nation's first black president oversaw the extinction of the black and Latino middle class, not to mention the further immiseration of the poor.
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The peaceful coexistence of one panel is undermined by the immiseration or bloodshed of another, and the abundance of one group of people is enabled by the exploitation of others.
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As other desperate families who had themselves survived unimaginable violence and worsening immiseration began to join the stream of migrants, the "caravan" became a made-for-Fox-News, Trumpist obsession, seemingly ripe for election-year exploitation.
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It might be helpful to regard them as secular Thomists, who, displaying a certain imaginative immiseration, think of a free and ordinary life in the way that their ancestors once thought of perfect blessedness in Heaven.
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Members of Congress pay lip service to ideas like filing taxes on a postcard, but they continue to perpetuate the current system of mass April immiseration by preventing the most obvious and effective way to simplify tax collection.
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Among the manifold benefits of being a large social platform are the ways in which your users are made to feel complicit in their own immiseration, and the related tendencies to minimize the problem in the first place.
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Because the politicians who watched over decades of immiseration, happy to let anything halfway decent on this little island sink into fallow fields or be blotted out by shiningly inaccessible housing developments, were also happy to let the country's most precarious and unrepresented people take the blame.
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Human beings are also heading north, pushed from their homes by the wars and immiseration that those extractive systems still reliably produce, by the cruelty and venality of their own leaders, and by changes to the climate that are already rendering swaths of the planet unlivable.
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The arrival of driverless trucks and taxis and 0003D-printed houses and robotic mall cops, Stern predicts, will cause a wave of joblessness that will lead to mass immiseration and social breakdown unless a universal basic income lets people out of work still earn enough to get by.
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The arrival of driverless trucks and taxis and 3D-printed houses and robotic mall cops, he predicts, will cause a wave of joblessness that will lead to mass immiseration and social breakdown — unless a universal basic income lets people out of work still earn enough to get by.
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Slate writer Jamelle Bouie, in a piece titled, "There's No Such Thing as a Good Trump Voter," wrote that it doesn't matter if Trump voters were driven by "inherent malice" or not, because in the end Trump's policies will lead to "disadvantage, immiseration, and violence" for many people of color.
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E.P. Thompson, author of the classic work of British history, "The Making of the English Working Class," described the brutality of economic transformation during the Industrial Revolution in Britain: The experience of immiseration came upon them in a hundred different forms; for the field laborer, the loss of his common rights and the vestiges of village democracy; for the artisan, the loss of his craftsman's status; for the weaver, the loss of livelihood and of independence; for the child, the loss of work and play in the home; for many groups of workers whose real earnings improved, the loss of security, leisure and the deterioration of the urban environment.
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Secondly, Sesardic argues that it is not clear Marx did mean relative immiseration; Sesardic observes that in the Communist Manifesto, Marx talks about the workers having nothing to lose but their chains, which is more in line with the view of absolute immiseration. Even by 1865 when Marx had moved towards a more scientific analysis, his work still implied absolute immiseration. In the 1865 paper "Value, Price and Profit", read at the International Workers' Association, Marx states that capitalism will drive down the average standard of wages.Sesardić, Neven.
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Rochin, Refugio I., and Monica D. Castillo. 1993. "Immigration, Colonia Formation, and Latino Poor in Rural California: Evolving 'Immiseration.'" Research Report, Tomas Rivera Center, Claremont, California, 68 pp.
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In Marxist theory and Marxian economics, the immiseration thesis, also referred to as emiseration thesis, is derived from Karl Marx's analysis of economic development in capitalism, implying that the nature of capitalist production stabilizes real wages, reducing wage growth relative to total value creation in the economy, leading to the increasing power of capital in society. The immiseration thesis is related to Marx's analysis of the rising organic composition of capital and reduced demand for labor relative to capital equipment as technology develops.
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Some writers have interpreted Marx's argument to mean that an absolute immiseration of the working class would occur as the broad historical trend. Thus, the workers would become more and more impoverished and unemployment would constantly grow.Thomas Sowell, "Marx's 'increasing misery' doctrine", American Economic Review, L, No. 1, March 1960, pp. 111-120.Thomas Sowell, Marxism: philosophy and economics.
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He believed that simply owning property and holding other responsibilities would encourage prudence and sound-mindedness. During a period when economic discussion was focused on the wages fund doctrine, Thornton saw that wages were determined by the ratio between the "fund" and the population of laborers in the market, but he contested the stance that the denominator complied with the simple stories of "immiseration" (economical impoverishment).
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Several commentators have used the label accelerationist to describe a political strategy articulated by the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. In a November 2016 interview with Channel 4 News, Žižek asserted that were he an American citizen, he would vote for Donald Trump as the candidate more likely to disrupt the status quo of politics in that country. This usage of the term accelerationism bears similarities to the Marxist immiseration thesis.
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When it became clear that the conditions of the working class were not growing worse in objective terms (for example, wages continued to rise and living conditions improved), it was suggested that Marx did not believe the working class would be immiserated in absolute terms but rather in relative terms i.e. the worker would become more exploited. However, Neven Sesardic criticises this view on two grounds. Firstly, it is unclear if this is an empirical statement that can actually be examined, whereas absolute immiseration can be.
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The first half of Break Through is a criticism of the green "politics of limits." The book begins with the birth of environmentalism. Nordhaus and Shellenberger argue that environmentalism in the U.S. emerged from post-war affluence, which they argue is a clue to understanding how ecological movements might emerge in places like China and India. > Progressive social reforms, from the Civil Rights Act to the Clean Water > Act, tend to occur during times of prosperity and rising expectations—not > immiseration and declining expectations.
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Pu Songling was also a playwright, and he adapted "Zhang Hongjian" into two vernacular plays: Immortals with Riches and Honour (富贵神仙) and Song of Tribulation (磨难曲), although the latter focuses predominantly on Zhang's life alone, "set in the context of rural immiseration in the north, and focusing on Zhang's bureaucratic career and military exploits." The Hong Kong black-and-white film The Fairy, starring Wu Chufan (吴楚帆) as Zhang Hongjian and Zi Luolian (紫罗莲) as Shunhua, and directed by Li Zhenfeng, premiered on 19 February 1962.
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Other writers, such as Ernest Mandel and Roman Rozdolsky, argued that in truth Marx had no theory of an absolute immiseration of the working class; at most, one could say that the rich-poor gap continues to grow, i.e. the wealthy get wealthier much more than ordinary workers improve their living standards. In part, the level of unemployment also seems to be based on the balance of power between social classes and state policy. Governments can allow unemployment to rise, but also implement job-creating policies, which makes unemployment levels partly a political result.
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The effect suggests a link between social equality or concessions by the regime and unintended consequences, as social reforms can raise expectations that can't be matched. According to the Tocqueville effect, a revolution is likely to occur after an improvement in social conditions in contrast to Marx's theory of progressive immiseration of the proletariat (deterioration of conditions). Relatedly, political scientist James Chowning Davies has proposed a J curve of revolutions which contends that periods of wealth and advancement are followed by periods of worsening conditions, leading to a revolution. Ted Robert Gurr also used the term relative deprivation to put forth that revolutions happen when there is an expectation of improvement, and a harsh reality in contrast.
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Crosland claimed that the traditional socialist programme of abolishing capitalism on the basis of capitalism inherently causing immiseration had been rendered obsolete by the fact that the post-war Keynesian capitalism had led to the expansion of affluence for all, including full employment and a welfare state. He claimed that the rise of such an affluent society had resulted in class identity fading and as a consequence socialism in its traditional conception as then supported by the British Labour Party was no longer attracting support. Crosland claimed that the Labour Party was associated in the public's mind as having "a sectional, traditional, class appeal" that was reinforced by bickering over nationalization. He argued that in order for the Labour Party to become electable again it had to drop its commitment to nationalization and to stop equating nationalization with socialism.
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However he characterizes the appropriation of the lion's share of "surplus value" – a term he coined, though it was later popularized by Marx – by the capitalist owner of the tools of production as exploitation. He rejects the Malthus/Mill proposition that any increase in the wage of the workers can only result in their further immiseration, noting the self-serving nature of this theory for capitalists pressing for legislation to outlaw workers efforts to raise their wages. By applying the utilitarian principle of "the greatest good for the greatest number" to the existing and possible alternative schemes of distribution, Thompson comes down on the side of an egalitarian distribution of the product. One of Thompson's colleagues in the Cooperative movement, John Minter Morgan, made the observation that he was the first to coin the term competitive to describe the existing economic system.
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