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11:55 Aug 6, 2017 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Social Sciences - History / revolutionary or reformatory way to socialism | |||||||
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4 +1 | managed to make ends meet / weren't starving |
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managed to make ends meet / weren't starving Explanation: Bread is the basic necessity. Keeping a loaf or two ahead of capitalism doesn't mean living in comfort, but managing to make ends meet with a small margin to spare. I can't access the quotation that philgoddard mentions, but it is possible that the comment was meant ironically. |
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Reference: Here's the explanation Reference information: The writer has paraphrased an article in the International Socialist Review, but has mangled it, making it hard to understand. I found it in Google Books, so I can't cut and paste the text, but here's the link if you're interested. The article says that they actually looked more healthy and well fed than the capitalists they were supposed to be fighting. A cynic might say that this is an example of how academics spend all their time changing other people's work to make it look like their own. The quote was originally in English, not translated from German, so there was no need to reword it. The article is by the editor, Robert Hunter, who later renounced socialism, and you can already see how he sees the movement's funny side. I recommend reading it: it's beautifully written and often witty. Reference: http://books.google.com/books?id=t7kWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA322-IA4&l... |
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