• Ayavaron [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I don't know if you have your terms right. Lumpenproletariat is the underclass of chronically unemployable people.

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

    Sometimes there's an inclusion of career criminals in the lumpenproles. Marx didn't see them as having revolutionary potential but Mao and the Black Panthers did.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      4 years ago

      In modern parlance we refer to this as "Army of Thieves and removed" but some people want to amend it to "Army of Thieves and Sex Workers".