immiserated

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of immiserate

comparative more immiserated · superlative most immiserated

1. Poor, impoverished; destitute.

   A rash of suicides among its workers is part of the reason for Foxconn’s relocation to the still poorer and more immiserated interior of the Heavenly People’s Republic.

   2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9

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   When Marxists believed that socialism was inevitable, there was no need to explain why it was desirable. It was simply the end point of a predetermined sequence of historical developments. Capitalism would self-destruct, due to its inner contradictions, and the increasingly immiserated workers would have no choice but to overthrow it.

   2001, Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press, page 167