I always thought it was from Marx. His concept is also referred to, as I understand, with “immiserate.”
What was Marx’s prediction for the future of capitalism? Why, as he writes in the Communist Manifesto, the emiseration of the proletariat. The proletariat would sink deeper and deeper into poverty while the bourgeoisie ruthlessly enriched itself until the day the revolution struck and the expropriators were expropriated.
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