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kept a loaf or two ahead of capitalism

15:13 Aug 4, 2017
English to Serbian translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History / vera u socijalističku budućnost
English term or phrase: kept a loaf or two ahead of capitalism
On the right of the movement there were some who recommended concentrating on the immediate improvements and reforms which the working class might win from governments and employers, leaving the remoter future to take care of itself. Revolt or insurrection were in any case not on the agenda. Even so, few labour leaders born after, say, 1860 abandoned the idea of the New Jerusalem. Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932), a self-made socialist intellectual who suggested incautiously, not only that Karl Marx's theories should be revised in the light of a flourishing capitalism ('revisionism'), but also that the putative socialist end was less important than the reforms to be won on the way, was massively condemned by labour politicians whose interest in actually overthrowing capitalism was sometimes extremely faint. The belief that the present society was intolerable made sense to woking-class people, even when, as an observer of a German socialist congress in the 1900s noted, their militants 'kept a loaf or two ahead of capitalism'. The ideal of new society was what the working class hope.
Danica Cvetković
Serbia
Local time: 05:00


Summary of answers provided
4 -1zadržali veknu-dve pre kapitalizma/pred kapitalizmom
Davor Ivic
2profitirali/okoristili se nauštrb kapitalizma
Lidija Klemencic


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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
zadržali veknu-dve pre kapitalizma/pred kapitalizmom


Explanation:
Predlog

Davor Ivic
Croatia
Local time: 05:00
Native speaker of: Native in CroatianCroatian, Native in EnglishEnglish

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disagree  Daryo: what would be that supposed to mean exactly? Even in ths ST it's obviously not meant to be taken literally, so why would a litteral translation of s.t. that's probably itself a litteral translation from some other language be any good?
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profitirali/okoristili se nauštrb kapitalizma


Explanation:
Ovo čisto kao logičan predlog jer je čest slučaj da oni najmilitantniji imaju lepu zaleđinu/ušteđevinu stečenu upravo nauštrb onoga protiv čega se bore. Možda neko zna neku izreku ili poslovicu koja bi se ovde mogla primeniti; ja ne mogu da se setim ničeg odgovarajućeg.

Lidija Klemencic
Serbia
Local time: 05:00
Native speaker of: Serbian
PRO pts in category: 12
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