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working-classize en · VERB

Etymology

From working-class + -ize. In Juche contexts, perhaps a calque of Korean 로동계급화(勞動階級化) (rodonggyegeuphwa).

Meanings

1. (Marxism, North-Korea, transitive) To cause to be working-class.
   • Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them. 1972 May 14, Kim Il Sung, Kim Il Sung Works (Kim Il Sung Works; 27), Pyongyang, Korea: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Talk to the Delegation of the Japan National Association of Socialist Mayors, page 177:
   • The tasks, and the means of carrying them out, to revolutionize and working-classize the whole society were elucidated by him. 1970, Baik Bong, Kim Il Sung, Biography: From Independent National Economy to 10-point Political Programme (Kim Il Sung: Biography; 3):
   • The important mission of literature and art is to serve our Party’s revolutionary cause of revolutionizing and working-classizing the whole of society. 1986, Kim Jong Il, Let Us Create More Revolutionary Films Based on Socialist Life, Pyongyang, Korea: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Problems of Great Social Importance Must Be Dealt With:

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