English Explanatory Dictionary

social murder

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The knowing causing of the inevitable premature death of members of an oppressed class by deliberately and structurally exposing them to potentially lethal conditions.

Word forms

social murder social murders

Etymology

Calque of German sozialer Mord, first attested in Friedrich Engels' Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England. Engels attributes the phrase to English workers' newspapers.

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