lumpenproletariat

• The reason Liberals really hate Wal-Mart is that the whole Liberal mantra rests on a poor and downtrodden * lumpenproletariat. —  The American Spectator
• But even in the community known as "The Bluff" where rapper Young Jeezy is said to have made his early fortunes in the traps (drug houses), the city's underclassed and typically apathetic lumpenproletariat filled the streets with Obama signs, singing and dancing like it was the first Juneteenth. —  Black College Wire
• Are their collective sugarcane farms going to forment socialist revolution among our own lumpenproletariat? —  Buffalo Pundit
• It was, of course, forbidden to share them with the law school lumpenproletariat. —  Above the Law
• Among the charges is the claim that technology companies are less keen on hiring hard-to-fill spots than on creating a cyber lumpenproletariat willing to work for cheaper wages. —  CNET News.com

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