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Lumpenproletariat
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Lumpenproletariat is a term used by Marxist theorists to describe the underclass devoid of class consciousness.
Quotes
It is among these masses, in the people of the shanty towns and in the lumpenproletariat that the insurrection will find its urban spearhead. The lumpenproletariat, this cohort of starving men, divorced from tribe and clan, constitutes one of the most spontaneously and radically revolutionary forces of a colonized people.
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. 81
See also
Class conflict
Working class
External links
Category:Marxism