[lbo-talk] Lumpen

[Jim Devine]

FWIW, here's what Karl & Fred had to say about the LP in the CM:
>The "dangerous class", [lumpenproletariat] the social scum, that
passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old
society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a
proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it
far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.<

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Jim Devine

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