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lumpenproletariat::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | labor, labour, proletariat, working class |
Examples of lumpenproletariat
lumpenproletariat
Instead of toning down his criticisms of the Huntingdon lumpenproletariat, he should exaggerate them.
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Fascism also met with great success in rural areas, especially among farmers, peasants, and in the city, the lumpenproletariat.
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These people form the lumpenproletariat, along with thieves and con artists of various kinds who depend on crime for their income.
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This view was revised by some followers of Marx such as Mao Zedong, who saw a greater role for the lumpenproletariat in class struggle.
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His work was a key influence on the Black Panther Party, particularly his ideas concerning nationalism, violence and the lumpenproletariat.
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- (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement
- Lumpenproletariat (a German word literally meaning "rag proletariat") is a term first defined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The German Ideology (1845) and later elaborated on in other works by Marx. ...
- The lowest stratum of the proletariat; a social underclass; the riffraff
- Is a term used in Marxist theory to describe the lowest level of the proletariat composing unskilled workers, vagrants, and criminals; characterized by a lack of class consciousness. Most of the lumpens were urban dwellers. ...
- Roughly translatable as "slum proletariat," covers the outcast, degenerated, and submerged elements such as beggars, prostitutes, gangsters, petty criminals, the chronically unemployed, the old and broken, to be found in all modem industrial cities. ...
