working-classize

English

Etymology

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

Verb

working-classize (third-person singular simple present working-classizes, present participle working-classizing, simple past and past participle working-classized)

1. (Marxism, Juche, transitive, North Korea) to cause to be working-class
   • 1970, Pong Paek, Kim Il Sung, Biography: From Independent National Economy to 10-point Political Programme (Kim Il Sung: Biography; 3)‎^[1]:

     The tasks, and the means of carrying them out, to revolutionize and working-classize the whole society were elucidated by him.

   • 1972 May 14, Il Sung Kim, Kim Il Sung Works (Kim Il Sung Works; 27)‎^[2], Pyongyang, Korea: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Talk to the Delegation of the Japan National Association of Socialist Mayors, page 177:

     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.

   • 1986, Jong Il Kim, Let Us Create More Revolutionary Films Based on Socialist Life‎^[3], Pyongyang, Korea: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Problems of Great Social Importance Must Be Dealt With:

     The important mission of literature and art is to serve our Party’s revolutionary cause of revolutionizing and working-classizing the whole of society.