Look up: lumpenproletariat

1. Lumpenproletariat
   The poorest of the poor: beggars, tramps, and criminals (according to Karl Marx). ...
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2. lumpenproletariat
   noun (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement
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3. Lumpenproletariat
   (German: `rabble proletariat`), according to Karl Marx in The Communist Manifesto, the lowest stratum of the industrial working class, including also ... [1 related articles]
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4. Lumpenproletariat
   `Lumpenproletariat`, a collective term from Lumpenproletarian (a German word literally meaning "raggedy proletarian"), was first defined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The German Ideology (1845) and later elaborated on in other works by Marx. The term was origina...
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