immiserated

immiserated

1. simple past and past participle of immiserate

immiserated (comparative more immiserated, superlative most immiserated)

1. Poor, impoverished; destitute.
   • 2001, Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press, page 167:

     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.

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

     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.