in his KARL MARX'S THEORY OF REVOLUTION, Hal Draper has a long discussion of the term "lumpenproletariat" in Marx. But I don't have the energy to look it up.
On 1/20/06, Kevin Robert Dean <Qualiall at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Jim Devine wrote:
> > it's easy to define: "lumpen" refers to poorer folks you don't like or
> > respect. It's the same as the common meaning of the "underclass."
> > That's very scientific.
> >
> > ill in bed,
> > Jim
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> Hope ya feel better Jim..
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> I think the word "Lumpen" has a more modern equivalant="Redneck" (poor
> southern white repubs?)
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