lumpenproletariat
Marx and Engels's term for the declassed poor outside regular wage labour, whom they saw as politically unreliable.
The bracketed word is an insertion by the transcribers next to Moore's "dangerous class"; it is the term used in the German text.
Forms in the original
- lumpenproletariat (sg)
Renderings in plain English
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lumpenproletariat project default
Why: Historical term with no exact modern equivalent. Kept as written; the term card explains it.
0 uses · forms: lumpenproletariat (sg)