As a direct consequence, the war over college admissions has become astonishingly fierce, with many middle- or upper-middle class families investing quantities of time and money that would have seemed unimaginable a generation or more ago, leading to an all-against-all arms race that immiserates the student and exhausts the parents.

AIDS appears on and immiserates individual human bodies, but often in gender- and ethnographically-specific ways.

They are, of course, right that trade facilitates the spread of technology and the mixing of cultures; they are wrong, however, to assert that "the corporations" are the primary beneficiaries of such exchange, or that such exchange, on balance, immiserates workers and destroys the environment.

To talk in a new way of the contradictions of an information/media/excess society and to show that such phenomena are a dimension of the same processes that immiserates the South may be seen as quixotic at a time when many believe that events have confirmed the most basic tenets of Marxism.

Cockcroft presents a frightening picture: dependent state monopoly-capitalism fuses together fractions of the big bourgeoisie, accelerates growth of the intermediate classes, proletarianizes the petty bourgeoisie and the peasantry, atomizes the working class as a whole, and immiserates most of the people.