Sentences with phrase «immiseration in»

The genius of our own time and place is to deflect attention, say from the oligarchic President Snow and his politics of immiseration in Panem, and turn it back onto the immiserated.

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Because there is no possible future for capitalism that doesn't reproduce the immense suffering of the popular majorities — the 99 percent — in the present because capitalism is premised on the free development of the few at the cost of the exploitation and immiseration of the many.

While there may be no blood on your hands in this matter there are others like you who are bathed in the blood and immiseration of others.

Better to embrace the Anthropocene's potential as a revolution in the way the Earth system works, they argue, than to try to retreat onto a low - impact path that runs the risk of global immiseration.

Milanovic accuses us — incorrectly — of wanting «the immiseration of the West» in order to eradicate poverty in the global South.