social murder
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.
Noun[edit]
social murder (plural social murders)
- (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.
Usage notes[edit]
Primarily used by leftist commentators who consider such deaths premeditated and not incidental, may be considered offensive by others.
Translations[edit]
systemic causation of premature death
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