Proletarianization

//ˌpɹəʊ.lɪˌtɛː.ɹɪ.ə.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian. British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable

    "[H]e would have found if he had lived for another half-century, and can be credited for foreseeing in 1906, such a disintegration and proletarianisation of society as he understood it as to transform it into a mob, and such a weakening of the national will as to leave it purposeless and helpless."

  2. 2
    The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian.; The social process whereby people move from being either employers, unemployed, or self-employed to being employed as wage labour by employers. British, English, Marxism, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable

    "For this is clear: the whole reason for the existence of socialistic agitation, as it is to-day attempted, with the cry of a "need of nature" in the economic development, falls to the ground in the moment when this economic development does not lead to the proletarianisation of the masses and to the communisation of the processes of production—to mercantile operations on a large scale."

Etymology

From proletarianize + -ation (suffix indicating the result of an action or process).

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