To refuse to use every tool at our disposal in this fight -- to embrace inaction -- is to endorse a trajectory that will lead to suffering, privation, and calamity.
The right still denounces socialism as an economic system that will lead to misery and privation, but with less emphasis on the political authoritarianism that often went hand in hand with socialism in power.
Much of what they have done to the country has led to economic privation, poverty and lack of progress.
The shock of this arrest and the subsequent privations he endured in the notorious Lubyanka prison in Moscow were to lead to some of the finest pages in The Gulag Archipelago (three volumes, 1974-76)???: "Of all the cells you've been in, your first cell is a very special one, the place where you first encountered others like yourself, doomed to the same fate.
The constant experience of suffering and death, and the privation that results as economies fail in AIDS-ravaged countries, especially in Africa, could lead to the downfall of governments and the breakdown of law and order.
But even this optimistic note is tinged with a pessimistic note, as "the aim of a future happy life for all" arises only "out of the privation of the present" (Horkheimer 1933b p. 34); it is the existence of current shared suffering that could lead to revolutionary social change.
The word "private" is related to "privation", suggesting that whatever is withdrawn from the public realm has no real existence.
But along with their references to privation and oppression, the walls make high-art connections.
However, any being who is subject to privation and lack could hardly be considered perfect or divine.
The circumstance led to a discussion among us as to which was the greater privation, want of salt or tobacco ; and on a division I was in the minority Idiot Woman. in favour of the latter.
His dispatches of bungling in the Crimean War and the privations faced by the troops caused outrage and eventually led to reform.
