This sector has also been referred to by some as a lumpenproletariat.

They also believed that the lumpenproletariat had a strong revolutionary potential.

The lumpenproletariat is the low life part of the proletariat class.

In that sense, Marx saw the lumpenproletariat as a counter-revolutionary force.

In some respects comparable to the European usage for "lumpenproletariat".

In modern social theory sometimes the word underclass is used as equivalent to Marx' lumpenproletariat.

The word is combination of lumpenproletariat and investor.

Marx also described two other classes, the petite bourgeoisie and the lumpenproletariat.

The latter is analogous to the Marxist term "lumpenproletariat".

Bakunin had a different as compared to Marx's on the revolutionary potential of the lumpenproletariat and the proletariat.

All tossed aside so that the Left wing elites can shape the impressionable minds of their lumpenproletariat.

But, then, King said he had given up on selling tickets to a fight he said should have appealed to the "lumpenproletariat."

Generally they are stealth hobbyists, but the lumpenproletariat just might be able to discern them by their, well, dirty windowpanes.

Leon Trotsky elaborated this view, perceiving the lumpenproletariat as especially vulnerable to reactionary thought.

From the German lumpenproletariat.

She understood what it meant to be lumpenproletariat , and made it her life's project to explain this outsiderness to America.

But what horrifies the reader is that these sympathetic figures should sink into America's degraded lumpenproletariat .

The general idea that a class system includes a population under the working class has a long tradition in the social sciences (e.g., lumpenproletariat).

Engels was in no doubt that the lumpenproletariat was 'the worst of all possible allies.'

This lumpenproletariat has fared badly, hit by the increasing market competitiveness for jobs, housing, education and hence, decent incomes and good health.

With insight and sensitivity, he describes the entrepreneurs and the fieldworkers, the celebrities and the lumpenproletariat.

This definition differs from the non-academic or popular culture conception, because it excludes the extremely poor and unemployed, which are called the lumpenproletariat.

He described the lumpenproletariat as "one of the most spontaneous and the most radically revolutionary forces of a colonized people."

And that hurts and impoverishes the middle class as well, not just the lumpenproletariat and/or the unemployed working class.

His work was a key influence on the Black Panther Party, particularly his ideas concerning nationalism, violence and the lumpenproletariat.