immiseration

The last two outcomes are what Marx called "immiseration," which, in translation, is the process you're undergoing when you have cancer and no health insurance or a mortgage payment due and no paycheck coming in.

Barbara Ehrenreich: The Communist Manifesto Hits 160 2008

Forward estimates made by the World Health Organization and by experts like Kingsley Davies predict cities of twenty, forty and sixty million inhabitants, a prospect of "immiseration" for multitudes of people that staggers the imagination.

Chapter 10 1983

Yet, given the country’s immiseration, it’s unlikely that young protesters and their working class supporters will be appeased even by the possibility of a Turkish-style, neoliberal, Islamo-democratic system.

Pepe Escobar: So Many Ways to Strut Your Democratic Stuff in a New World Pepe Escobar 2011

In the 19th century, we saw how that leads to exploitation and immiseration of workers.

Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Teacher’s Unions 2009

And when there is no longer any profit to be gained from their immiseration, then we will have taken that final necessary step to break the nefarious back of Prohibition, and move us slowly along into a saner, more rational world, one that would have helped Amy Winehouse and millions like her, instead of recklessly chasing her into her own grave.

Charles Shaw: Chasing Amy: Prohibition & the Infantilization Of Addiction Charles Shaw 2011

Yet, given the country’s immiseration, it’s unlikely that young protesters and their working class supporters will be appeased even by the possibility of a Turkish-style, neoliberal, Islamo-democratic system.

Pepe Escobar: So Many Ways to Strut Your Democratic Stuff in a New World Pepe Escobar 2011

This new law marks an important shift in the treatment of Palestinians in the regional diaspora, insofar as their present circumstances are seen to take precedence over larger geopolitical goals such as the benefits to authoritarian regimes of the ongoing immiseration of the Palestinians.

Katherine Franke: Egyptian Women and Palestinian Men Can Now Confer Egyptian Citizenship on Their Children Katherine Franke 2011

Rather, we should turn our attention to families who once thought they were "bettering themselves", and notice their slow immiseration.

No riots here. Just quiet, ever-deeper misery | Nick Cohen 2011

This new law marks an important shift in the treatment of Palestinians in the regional diaspora, insofar as their present circumstances are seen to take precedence over larger geopolitical goals such as the benefits to authoritarian regimes of the ongoing immiseration of the Palestinians.

Katherine Franke: Egyptian Women and Palestinian Men Can Now Confer Egyptian Citizenship on Their Children Katherine Franke 2011

Paul Krugman uses the term "pain caucus" to describe the growing chorus of well-placed and well-respected people who believe that we have to cut spending even in the face of continued economic stagnation and growing immiseration.

Jonathan Weiler: America's Elites Further Separate Themselves From Everyone Else Jonathan Weiler 2010