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White slaves. White blacks

Friedrich Engels

Phraseologism: White slaves. White blacks.

Meaning: Anyone exploited.

Origin: The expression "white slaves", sometimes replaced in our country by the expression "white negroes", was applied in England, by analogy with the negroes exploited by the planters, to the workers of large industrial enterprises exploited by the capitalists. On the continent, the expression has spread since 1845, when F. Engels in the 6th chapter of the book "The Condition of the Working Class in England" wrote: "The humane Tories were right in calling factory workers white slaves" (K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., vol. Ill, M.-L. 1930, p. 470). In the same 1845, this expression was picked up by the German novelist Adolf Wilck, who published the novel "White Slaves". This expression has become firmly established in the everyday life of socialist writers.

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Meaning:

Used as a commentary on the natural consequences of someone's unreasonable, wrong behavior.

Origin:

From the fable "Dragonfly and Ant" (1808) by I. A. Krylov (1769-1844). "Dragonfly" in this case is a grasshopper. At the time of Krylov, he was called that way, and he is depicted in the illustrations of those years for this fable.

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