"social murder" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: social murders [plural]
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. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|de|sozialer Mord}} Calque of German sozialer Mord Head templates: {{en-noun}} social murder (plural social murders)
  1. (politics) The knowing causing of the inevitable premature death of members of an oppressed class by deliberately and structurally exposing them to potentially lethal conditions. Categories (topical): Politics Translations (systemic causation of premature death): sociale moord [masculine] (Dutch), sozialer Mord [masculine] (German)

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