The United States has the highest rates of imprisonment in the developed world largely because it has the highest rates of interpersonal violence, the worst social problems, and the most
immiserated lower classes.
But while South Korea boomed after the Korean War and became one of the world's great economies, the Communist North
immiserated its people.
In "Racism and Reaction," he deconstructs the Right's increasingly shrill theme of "law and order," a dog whistle signaling the restoration of Albion's proper rulers, whose rightful place had been usurped, through the softheadedness of the nanny state, by the powerless and
immiserated, which is to say, primarily by black people and immigrants.
Capitalism sows the seeds of its own destruction--but those seeds are a disgruntled intellectual class rather than an
immiserated proletariat.
He reminds us that the benefits reaped from the new manufacturing era were preceded by a period that
immiserated much of the workforce and included among its harms child labor and unsafe working conditions.
Before the 2010 earthquake that killed an estimated 250,000 of Haiti's 9.9 million mostly
immiserated people, the secretary-general had cited the improvement UN peace-keepers had made in reducing kidnapping, gang violence and generally widespread crime after Haitian government crises.
The allegedly exploited proletariat was enriched, not
immiserated. In its enthusiasm for the deeply erroneous pseudo-discoveries of the 19th century--Benthamite utilitarianism, Comtean positivism, nationalism, socialism, historical materialism, social Darwinism, scientific racism, theorized imperialism, eugenics, geographic determinism, institutionalism, social engineering, progressive regulation, the rule of experts, a cynicism about the force of ethical ideas--much of the clerisy mislaid its earlier commitment to a free and dignified common people.
A man living in a land riddled by bribe-taking politicians will be
immiserated if he attempts to preserve his honesty, Esolen writes.