pauperization
- n a state of extreme poverty or destitution
- n the act of making someone poor
- Caught up in the Marxist dogma of progressive "pauperization," the Communist unions demand political rather than economic gains, preferring workers to be poor and militant rather .
- Since Algeria is unable at present to feed more than 3,000,000 people, the result has been mass pauperization.
- Basic to Communist theory, even if it is hard for workers to understand, is the notion of "progressive pauperization.