Both Uses of
ascetic
in
The Communist Manifesto
- Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.†
*asceticism = the practice of extreme self-denial (often to encourage spiritual growth)
- It inculcated universal asceticism and social levelling in its crudest form.†
Definition:
someone who practices self-denial (often to encourage spiritual growth); or relating to such self-denial
or:
severely plain (without decoration)
or:
severely plain (without decoration)