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

• “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

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Katherine Franke: Egyptian Women and Palestinian Men Can Now Confer Egyptian Citizenship on Their Children

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

  Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Teacher’s Unions

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

  The Guardian: No riots here. Just quiet, ever-deeper misery | Nick Cohen

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Jonathan Weiler: America's Elites Further Separate Themselves From Everyone Else

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Pepe Escobar: So Many Ways to Strut Your Democratic Stuff in a New World

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Charles Shaw: Chasing Amy: Prohibition & the Infantilization Of Addiction

• “So no immiseration as in Weimar, and no revolt of the dispossessed.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Those Reassuringly Dull Germans

• “But to what degree is expanding black immiseration Obama's fault?”

  The Huffington Post: Clarence Lusane: Black Infighting Over the Obama Presidency -- Getting Beyond It

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