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lumpenproletariat

NOUN
  1. (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement

How To Use lumpenproletariat In A Sentence

  • So even as they mutter racist slogans, members of Siberia's Lumpenproletariat benefit from proximity to the dragon.
  • In addition, the rural population is sometimes seen as a specific class in Marx's historical writings, as is the Lumpenproletariat (“dregs of society”), so that we obtain an image of society, which, far from the usual dichotomic or trichotomic image, is differentiated into several strata with multiple interests. CLASS
  • Remember, he's the voice of the lumpenproletariat, the great unwashed, the rough part of Los Angeles (assuming it has any smooth parts).
  • The elite have the skills to make sure their problems are first on the consultant's list; the lumpenproletariat do not.
  • The multigeneration denizens of public housing can readily be compared to Karl Marx's lumpenproletariat.
  • History was moving ‘in a certain way’ and the class struggle would continue in the Third World with the lumpenproletariat of the colonized peoples taking up arms against the colonists.
  • His treatment of Marxism is disgraceful, exhibiting little understanding, and he makes the scurrilous charge that Marxists are hostile to indigenous peoples because they are the modern day lumpenproletariat.
  • Trotsky writes that Nietzsche's philosophy has a particular appeal to what he describes as a parasitic proletariat, a social layer arising within capitalism which is more privileged than the mere lumpenproletariat.
  • For some workers and lumpenproletariat, it is a revolt against greedy capitalists.
  • That weasel phrase 'hard-working people' - you mean the lumpenproletariat, the rabble, don't you? Times, Sunday Times
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