> I'm sorry you don't find this humorous, so I will desist. However, do note
> that I did not refer to him as a lumpenproletarian. Perhaps he is a
> lumpenbourgeois? I don't know. But he's definitely a lumpen. Granted, it's
> more a cultural than a purely sociological characterization, but I thought
> that you of all people, Doug, were actually into that kind of thing. The
> lumpen is a social being with no formal class loyalties and no discipline,
> more or less asocial and prone to mindlessness and adventurism on those
> unfortunate occasions when the lumpen actually enters politics. You'll
> recall that Marx actually referred to Louis Bonaparte as a lumpen. Cops are
> lumpen. Scabs are lumpen. Blustery, grandiose, anti-social megalomaniacs are
> lumpen. So that's what I'm talking about.
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Chuck Lumpen IWW Member