Translation of "Lumpenproletariat" in English

Today we, the authors, are the proletariat.

An endeavour was made to organize the Lumpenproletariat, in order to win their sympathies.

This product of capitalist society is known as the lumpenproletariat (loafer-proletariat).

Yet Marx also has another figure of the unorganizable outside: the lumpen proletariat.

The slum proletariat has always been the same, whether in modern London or ancient Rome.

Marginalisation is used generally to refer to a set of interrelated processes which are creating a new 'residuum' (Byrne, 1984) or 'new poor' (Sipilä, 1985) or 'post-industrial lumpen proletariat' (O'Connor, 1972).

This low-grade proletariat is, generally speaking, a phenomenon which, in a more or less developed form, can be found in all the phases of society hitherto observed.

Both parties are hand-in-glove in this campaign of brutality and terror where para-military forces, lumpens, feudal elements, government officials and police have all ganged up in a systematic and well-planned campaign.

In 06/04/2015 participated in the "Cultural Marathon Ragamuffin" in Farroupilha public library, RS.

The lumpenproletariat is also an important base for fascism, which in particular provides its fighting forces.

However, as the CCP originated in a group of thugs and lumpen proletariat, it only knew how to rob.

In its housing conditions, in the meagreness and uncertainty of its existence, in its ignorance, it was not far removed from the mob proletariat. Indeed, it stood in many respects below it on account of the monotony of its life, as a result of the continuous oppression of factory discipline, which excluded all liberty of action, through the callous sweating of women and children.

The French bourgeoisie balked at the domination of the working proletariat; it has brought the lumpen proletariat to domination, with the Chief of the Society of December 10 at the head.

The ruined peasantry – the backbone of the Republic and its army – drifted to Rome where they constituted a lumpen-proletariat, a non-productive class, living off dole from the state.

And, finally, the defeat of the "substitutes" of the Bonapartist army, the professional soldiers, made it clear to the French bourgeoisie that the army would have to be established on another organisational basis, namely a real implementation of general conscription, and a reduction in the length of service, in order to draw in not only the rural lumpenproletariat but all the popular masses who were liable for military service.

This exploitation is visible also in small groups of a specialized new generation of curators and artists that are not able to connect transversally and fully the question of the “lumpenproletariat” of neoliberal global capitalism with the perverse commercialization and specialization of art as the space of good life where art is solely a question of trends and brands. Moreover, these local processes are enforced and institutionalized on different levels from outside the post-Yugoslav condition and reinforced by the neoliberal global system in Europe.

Yet most Marxist ideas of the organization of the working class presume, on the one hand, the image of a "class in itself", which must first become conscious of itself through planned education and organization, but on the other hand the completely disordered assemblage that as "lumpen proletariat" is not simply below the proletariat, but ranges all across the social classes, allowing no hope of transformation or transformability through any ordering hand at all.

Here it seems that everywhere that Marx’ concept of the proletariat has been fixed in an identitarian logic, its outside, the lumpen proletariat, and its sharp separateness from all that organizes, through a positivist and moralizing description has also been fixed.

Since the most trustworthy of our Odessa associates were Jews, and thus had no influence with the Lumpenproletariat, they urged me to go to Odessa, and, as a non-Hebrew, to use my influence to prevent the pogrom.

The lumpenproletariat multiplies and sells itself for a piece of bread to the bourgeoisie in order to betray the proletariat.

Also on display will be Matthew Day Jackson's 'Lumpenproletariat' (2010), a sculpture made of collected debris from the studio floor and sculpted into a life-size, sci-fi figure.

Also produced ten paintings depicting highlights from my hometown, whose call series "Ragamuffin yesterday and today, at 80 years of Emancipation ".

This scenic interplay of vagrants expressed their freedom of refusal and the respect of the author for their dignity and integrity – values that in the coming decades were to be increasing lost by and denied the groups that Marx branded as lumpenproletariat .

On the pretext of founding a benevolent society, the lumpen proletariat of Paris had been organized into secret sections, each section led by Bonapartist agents, with a Bonapartist general at the head of the whole.

Yet most Marxist ideas of the organization of the working class presume, on the one hand, the image of a “class in itself”, which must first become conscious of itself through planned education and organization, but on the other hand the completely disordered assemblage that as “lumpen proletariat” is not simply below the proletariat, but ranges all across the social classes, allowing no hope of transformation or transformability through any ordering hand at all.