lumpenproletariat

• “An older fellow-Communist at school patiently explained that the violent intimidation I had witnessed was a perfect example of "the dictatorship of the proletariat"; my friends on the receiving end being, as mere construction workers, the "lumpenproletariat".”

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• “The term '' 'lumpenproletariat' '' (trans. 'ragged proletariat' or 'lumpen masses') was introduced in '' The German Ideology '' by [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]”

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• “It incorporates Vichy France nostalgics, assorted anti-Semites, royalists, religious fundamentalists, pagan fascists and skinheads as well as the lumpenproletariat of alienated French.”

  The Wall Street Journal: In the Name Of the Father

• “The populations of unemployed youth building and festering across the region became an inconsequential blur, an Arab lumpenproletariat.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Is U.S. Democracy Just Talk?

• “In the aftermath of Hillsborough a concerted effort was made, lead by the Sun, to depict the victims as lumpenproletariat, too disorderly to be trusted.”

  The Guardian: Hillsborough petition shows some wounds cannot be healed by time | Ellie Mae O'Hagan

• “While the journalistic head yearns toward a middle-class living, the respect of those in power, maybe a seat at the table and a small trophy or two, many a heart also thumped for the hard-drinking, bare-knuckled access to what Black condescendingly branded "the lumpenproletariat" readership of traditional tabs: Jimmy Breslin speaks truth to power.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Teitelman: Murdoch, Britain and the Tabloid Mentality

• “The problem in the U.S. is that this lumpenproletariat, the populist masses, the traditional working class, has been shredded, fragmented and mostly lost to TV.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Teitelman: Murdoch, Britain and the Tabloid Mentality

• “Zombies have been depicted as mind-controlled minions, the shambling infected, the disintegrating dead, the ultimate lumpenproletariat, but in all cases, they reflect us, mere mortals afraid of death in a society on the verge of collapse.”

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• “No doubt for some this is more evidence of the false consciousness that our lumpenproletariat is prone to fall into.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Wal-Mart Does Saul Alinsky

• “Libra One of the lesser lumpenproletariat whom you have invited to one of your legendary social events will make an ass of themselves.”

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