📚 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.

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the most spontaneous and the most radically revolutionary forces of a colonized people

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