lumpenproletariat
*planted: 24/07/2021last tended: 27/11/2021
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels coined the word in the 1840s and used it to refer to the unthinking lower strata of society exploited by reactionary and counter-revolutionary forces, particularly in the context of the revolutions of 1848. They dismissed the revolutionary potential of the Lumpenproletariat and contrasted it with the proletariat.
yet:
the most spontaneous and the most radically revolutionary forces of a colonized people
– Vanguard Stacks: Self-Governing against Digital Colonialism
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1.1. In my garden
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