📕 subnode [[@neil/lumpenproletariat]]
in 📚 node [[lumpenproletariat]]
lumpenproletariat
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels coined the word in the 1840s and used it to refer to the unthinking lower strata of society exploited by reactionary and counter-revolutionary forces, particularly in the context of the revolutions of 1848. They dismissed the revolutionary potential of the Lumpenproletariat and contrasted it with the proletariat.
yet:
the most spontaneous and the most radically revolutionary forces of a colonized people
– [[Vanguard Stacks: Self-Governing against Digital Colonialism]]
📖 stoas
- public document at doc.anagora.org/lumpenproletariat
- video call at meet.jit.si/lumpenproletariat