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safety of his leafy perch 安全な高みから(人を見下す）

How dare you, Thompson suggested from the safety of his leafy perch in middle England, betray us by letting your inconvenient experiences in Communist Poland obstruct the view of our common Marxist ideal?

factory relocation, or disinvestment 工場の移転、資本の引き揚げ

By holding down the cost of labor—thanks to the threat of outsourcing, factory relocation, or disinvestment[18] —this global pool of cheap workers helps maintain profits and promote growth: just as it did in nineteenth-century industrial Europe, at least until organized trade unions and mass labor parties were powerful enough to bring about improved wages, redistributive taxation, and a decisive twentieth-century shift in the balance of political power—thereby confounding the revolutionary predictions of their own leaders.