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Lumpenproletariat (a German word meaning "raggedy proletariat") is a term first defined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The German Ideology (1845) and later elaborated on in works by Marx. In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852), Marx refers to the lumpenproletariat as the 'refuse of all classes,' including 'swindlers, confidence tricksters, brothel-keepers, rag-and-bone... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Lumpenproletariat In modern Russian, Turkish, Persian, and Spanish, lumpen, the shortened form of lumpenproletariat, is sometimes used to refer to lower classes of society.

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Slum Dwellers International By locating the building process within the milieu of the poor, and ordering the knowledge base around this mode of production in a horizontal, non-hierarchical and transnational form, SDI has evolved a praxis of housing production embedded in the conditions of social reproduction of the lumpenproletariat that reconfigures social relations in a deeper democratic form so that the poorest of the poor become a transformatory force from below.

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The Wretched of the Earth The lumpenproletariat in traditional Marxist theories are considered the lowest, most degraded stratum of the proletariat, especially criminals, vagrants, and the unemployed, who lacked class consciousness.

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    Lumpenproletariat

    Lumpenproletariat (a German word meaning "raggedy proletariat") is a term first defined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The German Ideology (1845) and later elaborated on in works by Marx.
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    Underclass

    Karl Marx referred to a group he called the lumpenproletariat.
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    Working class

    A sub-section of the proletariat, the lumpenproletariat (rag-proletariat), are the extremely poor and unemployed, such as day laborers and homeless people.
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    Class struggle

    Marx deemed the lumpenproletariat as unimportant, and not playing a major role in the labor/capital class struggle.
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    Red Army

    "Red" officially refers to the blood of the working class in its struggle against capitalism, and to the belief that all are equal—except for the social classes of the bourgeois, the proletariat and the lumpenproletariat.
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    Social class

    Underclass: Reliant on state benefits for income, described by Marx as the lumpenproletariat.
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    Marxism

    The lumpenproletariat: criminals, vagabonds, beggars, etc.
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    Lumpenproletariat
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    Nazism

    Further, they assert that fascism and its German variant, National Socialism, became the successful challengers to communism because they were able to both appeal to the establishment as a bulwark against Bolshevism and appeal to the working class base, particularly the growing underclass of unemployed and unemployable and growingly impoverished middle class elements who were becoming declassed (denounced as the lumpenproletariat).
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    Rebetiko

    (Damianakos Stathis has argued that the rebetiko songs of this first period were mostly the musical expression of lumpenproletariat.)

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