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KingCharlemagne

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6. Harwood perfectly exemplifies the concept of the 'lumpenproletariat,' the

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Dec 31, 2015, 02:37 PM

Dec 2015

worker with only his labor to sell who will rarely if ever achieve class consiousness

Lumpenproletariat is a term that was originally coined by Karl Marx to describe the layer of the working class that is unlikely ever to achieve class consciousness and is therefore lost to socially useful production, of no use to the revolutionary struggle, and perhaps even an impediment to the realization of a classless society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat

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