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expropriate
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synonyms: ~distraint, arrogate ???
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Definition:to deprive someone of their personal property for public use
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But the governments were taken away from them by the militant proletariat. At last was being realized Karl Marx's classic: "The knell of private capitalist property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated." And as fast as capitalistic governments crashed, cooperative commonwealths arose in their place.
Jack London. The Iron Heel
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It had always been assumed that if the capitalist class were expropriated, Socialism must follow; and unquestionably the capitalists had been expropriated.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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