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	Lumpenproletariat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The lumpenproletariat (German Lumpenproletariat, "rabble-proletariat"; "raggedy 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.
		Yet that particular revolution is often seen as having failed the Russian proletariat in its ultimate conquest for power by continuing militarism and allowing the formation of a new social class of Bolsheviks and apparatchiks.
		In modern Russian language, "lumpen", the shortened form of "lumpenproletariat", is sometimes used to refer to lower classes of society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lumpenproletariat (554 words)

	Classes and the Struggle for Socialism The Party of Proletarian Dictatorship. Stachkom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The policy of the proletariat in relation to other classes and layers is entirely dictated by the necessity of stimulating socially necessary activity in them; it is linked with the organizational forms borrowed from the capitalists of old, to the extent that this is necessary to secure the clarity and effectiveness of these stimuli.
		To help the proletariat become conscious of its own aims, to light with the torch of theory the proletariat's path forward in order that it will not be mistaken in its choice of the proletarian path; these are the tasks they set themselves.
		The proletariat must not trust even the party it gave birth to when it holds power; power is such a privilege that only the proletariat itself will not be corrupted and bourgeoisified by it.
	thunder.prohosting.com /~stachkom/hm_2_5.shtml (4069 words)

	Worker's Autonomy
		The road ahead of the proletariat is blocked: the reformist parties, trade unions and employers have coalesced to obstruct any growth in the level of the struggle, or any conquests which could lead to a revolutionary transformation of production relations.
		If the industrial proletariat are the most sensitive edge of the working class, they would also be the most fitted to perceiving the sickness of capitalism and of opposing it with a specific form of struggle, i.e.
		That is to say, the proletariat possess a "memory" or their own, and therefore the development of class autonomy does not depend solely on the structural modifications of capitalism.
	www.geocities.com /cordobakaf/elephantaut.html (14396 words)

	VENEZUELA NEWS BULLETIN No. 874
		Essentially, it was not a revolution of "the poor against the rich"; as a matter of fact and with the only exception of the proletariat, the clergy, nobility and bourgeoisie were very wealthy classes.
		The proletariat, or the class of proletarians, is, in a word, the working class of the 19th century.
		This means that the proletariat is not primordial, not "naturwüchsig"; it is an amorphous social concoction, lacking "cultural" and "civilized" roots.
	www.franz-lee.org /files/pandemonium00874.html (3500 words)

	Franz J. T. Lee -- Venezuela: Who and what is the revolutionary proletariat? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		From the 16th century onwards, here and there, in European writings, the concepts "proletariat" or "proletary" appeared; later, long before the birth of Marx, at the eve of the French Revolution, especially in "workers' clubs," like the "League of the Just," the concept gradually acquired a worker's content.
		Seen from an arrogant European standpoint, this means that the proletariat is not primordial, not "naturwüchsig"; it is an amorphous social concoction, a social excrement, lacking "cultural" and "civilized" roots.
		Furthermore, in that age, the influential, bourgeois, capitalist work, De Cassagnac, explained, that the general concept "proletariat" was composed of "workers, beggars, thieves and prostitutes." For example, this is what the German philosopher Hegel understood by his concept, the Pöbel.
	www.vheadline.com /printer_news.asp?id=22934 (1348 words)

	Some Preliminary Thoughts About Modern Class Structure
		The contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is the fundamental contradiction of capitalism.
		It is exactly when the proletariat begins to threaten the bourgeoisie's power at a given stage of history that the bourgeoisie is forced to transcend its old forms of oppression, creating new divisions within, and supervision over, the proletariat.
		The informal economy is a marketplace where the proletariat (especially the reserve army of the unemployed), the lumpenproletariat, and the lower fraction of the merchant petit bourgeoisie carry out economic activities that neither individual capitalists nor the state choose to engage in.
	www.kersplebedeb.com /mystuff/texts/ClassStructure.html (10991 words)

	3. The lumpenproletariat and the proletarian unnameable \| libcom.org
		Where this chapter differs is that it presents heterogeneity not as a lumpen disruption of a neat dialectical schema of the bourgeoisie and proletariat as two distinct classes, but as a property of the category of the proletariat.
		The proliferation of historical names and attributes of the lumpen proletariat was shown to be in contradistinction to the unnaming of the proletariat.
		Because the proletariat is not an empirical group of people but a mode of composition, it is not subject to that 'critique' of Marxism that proposes that a previously homogenous working class has, in the development of modernity, split into a plethora of different class and social fractions.
	libcom.org /library/deleuze-marx-politics-nicholas-thoburn-3 (9807 words)

	LUMPEN
		Lumpen is an entity that produces a magazine and a number of other art/activism media/culture projects.
		The New Russians are depicted as lumpens who have left the countryside and never fully adjusted to city life.
		Lumpen is from German Lumpenproletariat, "degraded stratum of the proletariat," from Lump, "a contemptible person" (from Lumpen, "rags") + Proletariat, "proletariat," from French.
	www.lumpen.com (643 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| Proletariat or Multitude? A Postanarchist Critique of Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		'proletariat' is the general concept that defines all of those whose labor is exploited by capital, the entire cooperating multitude.
		The industrial working class represented only a partial moment in the history of the proletariat and its revolutions, in the period when capital was able to reduce value to measure.
		From here, Virno moves on to the liberal notion in which the multitude becomes the "private" half of the public/private distinction as a means of silencing the cacophony of dissenting voices that emerge in that context while simultaneously making such dissent external to the "legitimate" public sphere of politics.
	slash.autonomedia.org /article.pl?sid=03/05/16/1736236 (1852 words)

	text.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Micawber sighing for her family - went out to pawn the family Stuart crested spoons, and was reported by the pawnbroker to the police (who found she was indeed a von Westphalen and her brother was the very Prussian Minister of the Interior whose spies were occasionally keeping watch on her husband).
		It was, of course, the Micawber attitude that determined Marx in his harsh stricture upon the "lumpen proletariat".
		They were "good guys" and the flics were "baddies" because the Parisians understood that when the chips were down the Bonnot Gang was ultimately on their side and the police with their clubs would be on the other (even in time of war, even in time of foreign occupation).
	recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/BonnotGang/truthAbout.htm (5071 words)

	CPUSA Online - Fascism and the Fight Against It
		By establishing its fighting unity, the proletariat would paralyze the influence of fascism over the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie, the youth and the intelligentsia, and would be able to neutralize one section of them and win over the other section.
		Unity of action of the proletariat on a national and international scale is the mighty weapon which renders the working class capable not only of successful defense but also of successful counterattack against fascism, against the class enemy.
		"...The international proletariat has experienced the suffering caused by the split in the working class and becomes more and more convinced that the united front, the unity of action of the proletariat on a national and international scale, is at once necessary and perfectly possible.
	www.cpusa.org /article/articleview/499/1/104 (1572 words)

	The WSCR Archive: Karl Marx: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: VII
		Any serious insurrection of the proletariat would at once have put new life into the bourgeoisie, reconciled it with the army, and insured a second June defeat for the workers.
		On December 4 the proletariat was incited by bourgeois and shopkeeper to fight.
		But the Bonapartist lumpen proletariat is to enrich itself: those in the know play tripotage [underhand dealings] on the Exchange with the railroad concessions.
	www.raggedclaws.com /criticalrealism/archive/brumaire_vii.html (4819 words)

	Swastika attack on Paris Train - Greasy Lake Community
		It was only during the mugging that they saw her address as being in the poshest part of town that the muggers saw a Jewish connection and they seem to have been wrong in that as in everything else.
		The immigrants and the minorities have always been the first to blame for the right-wing populists and, consequently, for the lumpen proletariat.
		Indeed, but the very existence of the lumpen proletariat is actually itself another by-product of capitalism.
	www.greasylake.org /the-circuit/index.php?showtopic=9928 (750 words)

	Merriam-Webster Online
		Originally, proletariat named the lowest social and economic class in ancient Rome, the class whose only service to the State consisted of providing its progeny or proles.
		Proletariat then came to refer to the lowest social or economic class of any community, before Marx contributed his own twist.
		Lumpen literally means "rags" in German, and Marx's lumpen proletariat describes the poorest and most ignorant, the lowest class in society, below even the working-class proletariat.
	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/wftwarch.pl?050504 (229 words)

	The Conversation + 01 - News and General Talk + First post and introduction...
		This same postwar depression heightened the allure of Marxism among an urban proletariat who were even more disenfranchised than their continental counterparts.
		The concept of dictatorship of the proletariat alluded to by Von Mises is not the same as the dictatorship concept employed by fascists.
		Dictatorship of the proletariat is supposed to mean workers' democracy, or dictatorship by the working class, rather than dictatorship by the capitalist class.
	www.lumpen.com /conversation/post.php?action=edit&fid=1&tid=1139&pid=5294 (6370 words)

	Comments on the English Situationists
		In the "lumpen" the English situationists include rioters, juvenile delinquents, petty criminals, thrill seekers, shoplifters, members of such organized groups as the Provos and the Hell's Angels, and working-class subcultural groups as the Mod and the Rockers.
		In terms of the lumpen itself the first thing to do is to disassociate the rank-and-file from the incredible crock of shit raised up, like a monstrance, by their leaders and ideologists.
		Though the bourgeoisification of the whole proletariat may have appeared to be an essential, inevitable and irreversible aspect of the development of modern capitalism in the 1950s and 1960s, no one thinks so now, not even capitalism's defenders, apologists and ideologues.
	www.notbored.org /english-comments.html (2036 words)

	Marxism (20-Jun-2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The proletariat definitely includes those who produce objects in factories with their hands, but Marxists dither about whether it includes people who work with their minds but are employees and live by their salaries.
		Capitalism creates the proletariat who have nothing to sell but their labor by bankrupting the artisan classes and the petty bourgeoisie and driving them into the proletariat.
		The doctrine of the dictatorship of the proletariat meant that other classes, including the peasantry, were disenfranchised and reduced to an inferior economic position, e.g.
	www-formal.stanford.edu /pub/jmc/progress/marxism.html (3569 words)

	Outlaws And Renegades
		Marx to whom the phrase ‘lumpen proletariat’ is attributed was totally unambiguous in regard to the threat ‘the scum’ posed, in particular to revolutionaries.
		In the meantime the existence of the contemporary ‘lumpen’ is a glaring ‘point of vulnerability in class’ and potential movement alike and we who are best placed, the ones who ‘know better’, must not blind ourselves to this reality, or indeed, in particular, to the implications of the current balance of forces on the ground.
		Organising the Lumpen Proletariat; Cliques and Communists in Berlin during the Weimar Republic by Eve Rosenhaft, acclaimed author of Beating the Fascists.
	www.redaction.org /drugs/outlaws.html (2277 words)

	Chris Harman: Prophet and proletariat (The Iranian experience)
		They used Islamic language to mobilise behind them sections of the lumpen proletariat into gangs, the Hizbollah, which would attack the left, enforce Islamic “morality” (for instance, against women who refused to wear the veil) and join the army in putting down the separatist revolts.
		Neither the proletariat nor- the bourgeoisie was able to exert their political hegemony.
		It was hardly surprising that the impoverished petty bourgeois and lumpen supporters of the IRP identified with its leaders in the onslaught against the left.
	www.marxists.de /religion/harman/pt07.htm (4756 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - The power of ragamuffin - Sunday \| June 27, 2004
		Gray focuses on not just the urban poor per see but also on the element Marx called the 'Lumpen Proletariat': the class of almost unemployable, irredeemable (Omar Davies' term) social outcasts; the parasites, the roughnecks, the ragamuffin.
		The lumpen elements are the lowest of the low, the kind of persons you see hanging off the buses (and inside) on their way to political meetings and the ones bawling out, "Boss, do something fi mi nuh!" The ones who would create mayhem for a 'food money'.
		Indeed, Gray says things about Seaga in the book which any newspaper editor would be careful about repeating in print: But Gray shows how socialism ideologically favoured the lumpen elements which, incidentally, was quite contrary to the very negative stereotype of the lumpen proletariat given by Karl Marx, the founder of communism.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20040627/focus/focus2.html (1577 words)

	The NarcoSphere \|\| Venezuela: Who is the Proletariat?
		Furthermore, in that age, the influential, bourgeois, capitalist work, De Cassagnac explained, that the general concept "proletariat" was composed of "workers, beggars, thieves and prostitutes".
		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".
		Now, we know what Marx and Engels, the fathers of scientific and philosophic socialism, understood by the proletariat, that is, objectively as a class-in-itself.
	narcosphere.narconews.com /story/2004/9/27/95616/5474 (1560 words)

	Seeing Red
		The terms "Lumpen" or "lumpen-proletariat" are used by Marxists to refer to that layer of de-humanized individuals of all class origins who have turned to a life of predation and parasitism on the working class.
		In the "Manifesto" Marx and Engels remarked that the "lumpen" might get swept along with a working class revolution, but that their entire way of life prepared them better to serve as agents of repression, tools of reaction.
		Actual experience, whether in Algeria, Los Angeles or Belfast, teaches us that the lumpen are much more likely to end in the ranks of the FBI, the RUC or the French secret police than in the ranks of the liberation army.
	www.seeingred.com /Copy/1.2_frantz.html (3202 words)

	Trotsky and the Struggle Against Fascism
		And it is a combination of the growing disquiet of the "middle classes" (the "petit bourgeoisie" in Marxist terms) and the alienation of the poorest sections (the "lumpen proletariat") that is creating the social basis for these parties.
		Apart from the two opposing classes - the proletariat and bourgeoisie - which represent irreconcilable interests - the first having nothing more than their labour power to sell, the latter owning the means of production - Marx defined a class "hanging" somehow in between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie: the petit bourgeoisie.
		It issued forth from the petty bourgeoisie, the lumpen proletariat,and even to a certain extent from the proletarian masses; Mussolini, a former socialist, is a "self-made" man arising from this movement.
	www.newyouth.com /archives/theory/trotsky_and_fight_against_fascism_20000301.asp (4742 words)

	Black British Forums :: View topic - MIS-PLACED LOYALTIES IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There is also evidence of the reality of the blood suckers and parasites that are elements of the lumpen proletariat.
		The proletariat is the lowest class in view of economics and social status.
		The lumpen elements also ascribe to this philosophy but they note that the only way to gain material things for the unskilled and unemployed is through criminal activity.
	www.blackpresence.co.uk /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1901 (4874 words)

	Anarchist Strategy Discussion
		Syndicalism that was more marxist in orientation, tended to adopt the view that the proletariat alone was the agent.
		One alternative is to opt for the lumpen proletariat.
		The other problem with the lumpen is they are the most dog-eat-dog "individualists" one could find.
	www.mutualist.org /id13.html (2358 words)

	What do Marxists think about Guerrillaism? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is not in the tradition of Marxism to support a movement of peasant war separate and apart from the movement of the working class, which is decisive.
		Guerrillaism as Lenin has explained is the method of the lumpen proletariat and of the peasants.
		Urban guerrillaism tries to replace the movement of the proletariat by students, lumpens and even some de-classed workers and is absolutely against all the teachings of Marxism.
	www.newyouth.com /archives/theory/faq/marxism_and_guerrillaism.asp (345 words)

	A Harvest of Souls - Talking to Those Other Fools
		Common wisdom on the networks is that George Bush won the 2004 American election by harvesting the souls of America's lumpen proletariat.
		This was made possible because almost alone amongst Western democracies, America has a large committed religious constituency, and any constituency, whether it be for religion, football or collecting bottle tops, is a honeypot for the politically ambitious.
		If Bush and Co. have won the hearts of the lumpen proletariat, America's would-be intellectual elite have only themselves to blame.
	thormay.net /unwiseideas/harvestofsouls.html (1266 words)

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