If those good things come with nasty addenda, such as an upsurge of authoritarian intolerance at home and a crescendo of snarls abroad, that _ so the Putin-boosters argue _ is the price to be paid for reviving a humiliated and pauperized Russia.
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While the Russian press has gained considerable credibility in the years since it was freed from the editorship of the Ministry of Truth, it finds itself increasingly regionalized, pauperized and, like its counterparts everywhere, challenged by the glitzier and tamer arts of television reporting.
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EXP-OBIT-AMIN ( Jd ) _ Idi Amin, whose eight-year reign of terror in Uganda encompassed widespread killing, torture and dispossessioleft the country pauperized, died Saturday in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, where he had lived for years in exile.
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Marx himself says that the " absolute general law of capitalist accumulation " is that the more that capital grows in size and value, the bigger the working class becomes, and the larger the pauperized sections of the working class and the industrial reserve army become.
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Also, many officials in Ireland didn't take broad effective action to match the scope of the crisis because of their rigid adherence to all the Scroogesque Victorian " political economy " shibboleths ( such as the contrast between the deserving vs . the undeserving poor, the " pauperizing " effects of direct charity, the idea that the best-off man on relief always had to be worse off than the worst-off employed worker, or otherwise poor people would immediately resign employment en masse to live on relief etc . etc . ad nauseam ).
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In 1994, Raphael's book " Ultimate Risk ", the story of the Lloyd's of London catastrophe, became a best-seller in the UK . Between 1988 and 1992 Lloyd's recorded losses of some twelve billion US dollars, and Raphael wrote that it thus managed to " pauperize, if not bankrupt, as many as two in five of those who provided the market's capital . " Raphael was himself a Lloyd's Name, and was thus able to write as an insider, one of the victims of the affair.
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:: : : KageTora-- I'm sure that the British were overall not mostly intentionally malicious towards the Irish, but many people in critical positions to actually do something were hobbled by Victorian " political economy " shibboleths about the " pauperizing " and dependency-creating effects of " outdoor relief ", the idea that the best-off man on relief always had to be worse off than the worst-off employed worker ( or otherwise poor people would immediately resign employment en masse to live on charity ), etc . etc . " ad nauseam magnam ".
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However, much dithering and delay was caused by trying to stay within the localistic framework of the old Elizabethan poor-law system ( when the crisis was obviously not local ), and by Victorian middle-class attitudes about the " deserving " and " undeserving " poor, the " pauperizing " tendency of direct relief handouts, etc . Also, there were several confidence-building measures which the British could have undertaken to show that they were serious ( such as banning food exports from Ireland . etc . ), and which they instead conspicuously refused to do . . . talk ) 15 : 52, 27 December 2013 ( UTC)
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:: : : : : : By the way, a fair amount of the " roadmaking " in famine-era Ireland was a farce-- weakened men who could barely lift a shovel being made to stand around and pretty much pretend to do work as a condition of being given aid, because those who were giving out the aid had a rigid inflexible dogmatic belief in all the Scroogesque Victorian " political economy " shibboleths ( to some, it seemed to be more important to guard against the supposed " pauperizing " effect of charity, and to allow no exceptions whatsoever to the principle that the best-off man on relief always had to be worse off than the worst-off employed worker, than to simply give food to people who were not too far off from starving to death . . . ) . talk ) 15 : 04, 1 January 2015 ( UTC)
