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	Lumpenproletariat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The lumpenproletariat (German Lumpenproletariat, "rabble-proletariat") is a term originally defined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The German Ideology (1845), their famous second joint work, and later expounded upon in future works by Marx.
		In the Eighteenth Brumaire, the lumpenproletariat were a 'class fraction' that constituted the political power base for Louis Bonaparte of France in 1848.
		According to Marx, the lumpenproletariat had no real motive for participating in revolution, and might have in fact an interest in preserving the current class structure, because members of the lumpenproletariat often depended on the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy for their day-to-day existence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lumpenproletariat (305 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Lumpenproletariat
		Modern users of the term lumpenproletariat prefer instead to rely on only a select few uses of the term within a select few documents which are – often quite accidentally – the most extremely used in their context by the term's inventors.
		The lumpenproletariat were essentially obedient to the wishes of the historical bourgeoisie (ahistorical middle class) and the aristocracy.
		The more colloquial modern use of the term "lumpenproletariat" to mean the chronically unemployed has some overlap with Marx's and Engels' usage, but lacks the specific meaning that Marx's usage had in the context of his theory of class-consciousness and historical materialism.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Lumpenproletariat (779 words)

	Talk:Lumpenproletariat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Don't know if Lumpenproletariat should be moved to lumpen ploletariat.
		Thanks all for your input, lumpen proletariat and lumpen-proletariat redirect to lumpenproletariat now.
		The word "lumpen" has become a legitimate English word, and the proper English translation of "Lumpenproletariat" is the English phrase "lumpen proletariat" (by far the most common use of "lumpen").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Lumpenproletariat (316 words)

	Lumpenproletariat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Lumpenproletariat (German literally translated: rag-proletariat) is a term used by Marxists to describe the section of the proletariat that can't find legal work on regular basis.
		Modern users of term lumpenproletariat prefer instead to rely on a select few uses of the term a select few documents which are - quite accidentally - the most extremely used their context by the term's inventors.
		The lumpenproletariat were essentially obedient to wishes of the historical bourgeoisie (ahistorical middle and the aristocracy.
	www.freeglossary.com /Lumpen-proletariat (605 words)

	Untitled Document
		Andy McCrae, was sentenced to death for the November 19, 2002 assassination of a Pine Bluff, California police officer in an act of insurrection against the police state and the empire of imperial state-capitalism that pulls its strings.
		Lastly, we might consider the possibility of nothing less than a suburban lumpenproletariat, composed of student radicals and bohemian, countercultural and rebellious youth of the type who populated the anti-globalization movement that came to prominence during the famed "Battle of Seattle" in 1999.
		It is these three sectors of the lumpenproletariat, certainly distinctive from one another, drawn from across conventional geographical, cultural, ethnic, religious, ideological or even class boundaries, that form the foundation of the new class struggle, the new radicalism to come.
	www.attackthesystem.com /classvanguard.html (3914 words)

	Karl Kautsky: Social Democracy vs. Communism (Part 9) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was this political and military assistance on the part of the proletariat that made possible the dictatorship of a single individual in Rome, which led to the rise of Caesarism and its development into a state form.
		It was the latter type that he regarded as capable of developing, in the process of many struggles and through long experience, the requisite power and ability to emancipate itself, and thus move society forward to higher forms.
		Hundreds of years of struggle were required before such consciousness became possible, and even then it was confined at the beginning to a small elite, which, perceiving its social power and significance, placed before itself the aim of achieving a fundamental social change.
	www.marxists.org /archive/kautsky/1930s/demvscom/ch09.htm (2690 words)

	Marxism Glossary - L
		Lumpenproletariat - 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.
		Reactionary and fascist demagogues have found some of their mass base in the lumpenproletariat - whose atomized condition militates against their adopting class-conscious, proletarian attitudes.
		Joined movement in Poland in 1887; exiled in 1889; leader of SDKP (Polish Social Democrats); joined SDP in Germany 1898; on Second International bureau from 1903; leader of left wing against revisionist right and, after 1910, against Kautskyist group; leading revolutionary opponent of war; founder of Spartacus group.
	www.newyouth.com /archives/theory/glossary/l.asp?format=print (738 words)

	Onions: the great unwashed
		In his Eighteenth Brumaire, Karl Marx discusses the social reality of the lumpenproletariat — that ragged sector of the proletariat that does not engage in legal, well-behaved proletarian work.
		Rather than receive the weekly wage, the lumpenproletariat does their work under the table or under the bridge.
		Rarely receiving recognition outside of their stigmatized demi-monde, the lumpenproletariat work away invisibly.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/2003/12/5/commentary/article8.html (714 words)

	On the Offensive - The American Vanguard
		Workers, peasants and what they termed the lumpenproletariat (comparable to the underclass) were to be directed, guided and mobilized by a Communist elite who, by their superior understanding of social laws, were best suited to be leaders of the other classes.
		Since they saw themselves as enemies of private property they saw themselves as making common cause with the lumpenproletariat, what in today's term would be called the underclass, who, as they taught, were also enemies of private property and, thus, allies.
		Broadcast network television, namely the big three (NBC, CBS and ABC), are the main venues through which the values of the liberal media are inculcated in the masses, especially via their news programs that serve to tell viewers which "cause of the day" to be concerned about.
	www.fairpress.org /chavez/oto0819.htm (649 words)

	Commentary Magazine - A Perspective on the Panthers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		...The lumpenproletariat experiences a much greater degree of oppression than does the proletariatbut for that very reason is infinitely less capable of carrying out a social revolution...
		...The glamorized route out of the lumpenproletariat is the kind of anti-social behavior that typically consists of either the most primitive exploitation of other members of the class, or predatory attacks on the society which excludes: the pimp or the thug...
		...incapable of self-organization, the lumpenproletariat cannot be brought together in a movement without benefit of an iron-fisted leadership, and invariably that leadership ends by selling out those it claims to represent or, if it should acquire power, by oppressing them even more vigorously than did the old order...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V50I3P37-1.htm (6303 words)

	Venezuela: Who is the Proletariat? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Apart from the semantic similarity, this colluvies vagabundorum, that is, this rotting mass thrown off by the lowest sectors of "modern society", the Lumpenproletariat, in Marxian terminology, is exactly the negation of the proletariat.
		Here we see that the Marxian social class analysis was not normative, was not based on "rich and poor", was not even an issue of "white and fl", of "race theory" of "race struggle".
		However, according to Marx, both classes, the Proletariat and the Lumpenproletariat, had the following in common: both were "free" and both could be "bought" or "bribed".
	www.talkaboutculture.com /group/soc.culture.australian/messages/320172.html (1392 words)

	Definition of the Day - VikingPhoenix.com - Definitions and Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The lumpenproletariat are the shock troops used by progressives to increase the power of the state.
		Derived from the Greek hoi (the) and polloi (many) and meaning "the greater number, the people, the commonality, the masses." Many hoi polloi live in flyover country, geographic, or virtual, and therefore are bumpkins, or peasants with pitchforks, or rustics.
		Other hoi polloi are lumpenproletariat and live in the centers of power where they bow to the superior knowledge of the media elites, academia, the apparatchik, and the nomenklatura.
	vikingphoenix.com /Internet/reference/defday.htm (7607 words)

	MIM Notes
		This struggle reflects the class position of the lumpenproletariat (the chronically unemployed) in the oppressed nations.
		But because the lumpen are among the most oppressed, they can also be among the most energetic in the fight against capitalism and for communism This is why the cops feared that gangs might ally with the revolutionary Black Panther Party.
		The significant thing about groups like the Black Panthers, and later the Young Lords, is that they took up the revolutionary tool of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and applied it in a living way to their concrete conditions.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/mn/text.php?mimfile=mn214/LYOs.txt (1228 words)

	PEN-L message, [PEN-L:11753] Prostitution and Lumpenproletariat
		Of course there are many in the lumpenproletariat who have progressive sympathies and have played progressive roles while there are also some in the proletariat who are reactionary and have inhibited progressive struggles.
		I think that much of Franz Fanon's work helped to break down some of the anti- lumpenproletariat biases and stereotypes common in the left and that he was right on in suggesting that the potentially progressive sympathies and roles played among some in the lumpenproletariat have been grossly underestimated.
		Elements of the lumpenproletariat, petit-bourgoeis, anmd even nominally progressive bourgeoisie may play and have played a role in revolution.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/pen-l/1997m08.c/msg00076.htm (790 words)

	BPP: "Information," September 28, 1968
		Armed with this ideological perspective and method, Huey transformed the Black lumpenproletariat from the forgotten people at the bottom of society into the vanguard of the proletariat.
		It is necessary to confront this confusion, because it has a great deal to do with the strategy and tactics that we follow and with our strained relations with the White radicals from the oppressor section of Babylon.
		The Lumpenproletariat are all those who have no secure relationship or vested interest in the means of production and the institutions of capitalist society.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/bpp/bppideology1970.html (3774 words)

	Hudson Institute > Publication Details
		The 1960s generally, and in particular the thought of the psychiatrist and anticolonialist intellectual Frantz Fanon, marked the repudiation of the âembourgeoifiedâ proletariat in favor of what classical Marxism would simply have called the lumpen.
		This New Class has allied with and adopted elements of the lumpenproletariatâs âcounterculturalâ lifestyles, in a direct affront to the more traditional morality of the middle and working classes.
		This precipitous behavioral shift among most of the upper class was aptly termed âthe revolt of the elitesâ by the eminent social critic Christopher Lasch, in his 1995 book of the same name.
	www.hudson.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=1939 (735 words)

	The Lumpenproletariat As Vanguard
		Because the BPP was attempting to organize the lumpenproletariat, it stands to reason that they would interact with urban gangs.
		Another important lesson to draw from an analysis of the BPP is that the lumpenproletariat is clearly not the vanguard for Black or American advancement—and it never has been.
		It is clear that the Us-Panther conflict needs to be given a balanced treatment, especially in light of the failure of the movement to adequately police itself.
	www.nbufront.org /html/FRONTalView/ArticlesPapers/Errol2.html (8639 words)

	class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The lumpenproletariat are what we might now call the "underclass"--those people who are chronically unemployed or underemployed.
		The lumpenproletariat are very important as a class.
		Capitalists desperately need there to be a bunch of people who are unemployed, because they can use them as strikebreakers, and as a general threat to people who have jobs.
	sasweb.utoledo.edu /introsoc/topics/class.htm (790 words)

	Decline of Aristocracy
		According to Marx, classes are defined and structured by the relations dealing with work and labor and ownership or possession of property and the means of production.
		The main classes are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat but there are others such as landlords, petty bourgeoisie, peasants, and lumpenproletariat.
		The lumpenproletariat is the “dangerous class” according to Marx and the social scum.
	www.udayton.edu /~hst102-14-2/shannon/shannonobrycki.htm (911 words)

	Swans Commentary: The Message Of 2004, by Charles Marowitz - cmarow03
		The blue and red maps of America which accompanied the election process were a clear indication -- not only of the country's division, but of the preeminence of conservative ideology -- in the heartland, the West, the South, throughout rural America.
		This new and burgeoning lumpenproletariat could easily assimilate the abuses of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib.
		In the midst of madmen, you seek the sanctuary of sensible people; in a society populated by a hard-hearted, weak-minded, morally ambiguous lumpenproletariat, you seek out the higher ground of a more civilized community.
	www.swans.com /library/art10/cmarow03.html (1077 words)

	Marx's Use of "Class"
		It is spoken of elsewhere as "a recruiting ground for thieves and criminals of all kinds, living on the crumbs of society, people without a definite trade, vagabonds, people without a hearth or a home."
		It seems to be a gathering place for all the unemployed poor, though Marx's term, "dangerous class," suggests a certain action criterion as well.
		The Lumpenproletariat sell their services to the bourgeoisie, who use them as strikebreakers, labor spies, and fighters against the workers in times of revolution.
	www.nyu.edu /projects/ollman/docs/class_content.php (4386 words)

	Like Disneyland, but smellier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marx and Lenin foresaw industrial workers, the proletariat, throwing off their chains and rising against their bosses.
		They had no use for the uprooted and ill-disciplined lumpenproletariat (lumpen is German for "rags").
		By contrast, San Francisco's young leftists, the kind of college-educated bohemians who move into working-class neighborhoods and then claim to fight gentrification, suggest in their posters that the lumpenproletariat could be a revolutionary elite.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/09/05/MN78857.DTL&type=printable (756 words)

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		We're the angry lumpenproletariat and we're not going away.
		You know - the ones the journalists and writers and editors and TV talking heads purport to serve.
		If the bloggers - the lumpenproletariat- say that you newsies (or politicos) suck; you suck.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=6980232&postID=110856089757309055 (487 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the second chapter, Fanon accentuates the “peasants” and “lumpenproletariat”; because “peasantry precisely constitutes the only spontaneously revolutionary force of the country” (p.
		123), “for the lumpenproletariat, that horde of starving men, uprooted from their tribe and from their clan, constitutes one of the most spontaneous and the most radically revolutionary forces of a colonized people” (p.
		However, those rank-and-file seem to little by little lose their spontaneous desire while they are treated “as a sort of manna fallen from heaven” (p.
	www.albany.edu /~critica1/classes/benjamin/680_spring_2005/discussion/fanon/messages/1110188044.html (595 words)

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