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'Lumpenproletariat (a German word meaning "raggedy proletariat") is a term first defined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The German Ideology (1845) and later elaborated on in works by Marx.'
Gender Politics: Sex, Bikes, and Relationships BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Actually, the "Lumpenproletariat" is better defined by Marx in The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
Gender Politics: Sex, Bikes, and Relationships BikeSnobNYC 2008
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It had belonged — and still did, I suppose — to the Janitor Angelicus: Lumpenproletariat.
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There would be no more Lumpenproletariat either because we would all be working high.
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And though all the "Tea Party" and three-quarters of Congress have no idea who the Lumpenproletariat were, that wouldn't matter either ... because we'd all have great jobs and that wouldn't matter.
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There would be no more Lumpenproletariat either because we would all be working high.
Matthew Anderson: "Let's Get America Working Again" Matthew Anderson 2010
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And though all the "Tea Party" and three-quarters of Congress have no idea who the Lumpenproletariat were, that wouldn't matter either...because we'd all have great jobs and that wouldn't matter.
Matthew Anderson: "Let's Get America Working Again" Matthew Anderson 2010
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As she later explained, they had been reaching out to the Lumpenproletariat community and never came in contact with socialism.
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Stuff that says “evolution” or “biology” or “science” or “authoritarian organ of the scientific establishment imposing its will on the Lumpenproletariat”.
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Some modes of con - sciousness and modes of being that are the concern of New Left thought and activity today Marx scornfully rejected as characteristic of the Lumpenproletariat.
MARXISM SIDNEY HOOK 1968
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