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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LUMPENPROLETARIAT

German, literally: ragged proletariat.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LUMPENPROLETARIAT

lumpenproletariat  [ˌlʌmpənˌprəʊlɪˈtɛərɪət] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LUMPENPROLETARIAT

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adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Lumpenproletariat is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LUMPENPROLETARIAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Lumpenproletariat

Lumpenproletariat is a term that was originally coined by Karl Marx to describe that 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. The word is derived from the German word Lumpenproletarier, a word literally meaning "miscreant" as well as "rag". The term proletarian was first defined by Marx and Friedrich Engels in The German Ideology and later elaborated on in other works by Marx. The Marxist Internet Archive writes that " this term identifies the class of outcast, degenerated and submerged elements that make up a section of the population of industrial centers" which include "beggars, prostitutes, gangsters, racketeers, swindlers, petty criminals, tramps, chronic unemployed or unemployables, persons who have been cast out by industry, and all sorts of declassed, degraded or degenerated elements.

Definition of lumpenproletariat in the English dictionary

The definition of lumpenproletariat in the dictionary is the amorphous urban social group below the proletariat, consisting of criminals, tramps, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LUMPENPROLETARIAT


cancellariate
ˌkænsəˈlɛərɪət
chariot
ˈtʃærɪət
commissariat
ˌkɒmɪˈsɛərɪət
compatriot
kəmˈpætrɪət
Cypriot
ˈsɪprɪət
heriot
ˈhɛrɪət
Iscariot
ɪˈskærɪət
lariat
ˈlærɪət
loriot
ˈlɒrɪət
patriot
ˈpeɪtrɪət
proletariat
ˌprəʊlɪˈtɛərɪət
proletariate
ˌprəʊlɪˈtɛərɪət
prothonotariat
ˌprəʊθəʊnəʊˈtɛərɪət
protonotariat
ˌprəʊtəʊnəʊˈteərɪət
salariat
səˈleərɪət
secretariat
ˌsɛkrɪˈtɛərɪət
secretariate
ˌsekrɪˈteərɪət
subproletariat
ˌsʌbprəʊlɪˈtɛərɪət
subsidiariat
ˌsʌbsɪdɪˈɛərɪət
unappropriate
ˌʌnəˈprəʊprɪət

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LUMPENPROLETARIAT

lump
lump hammer
lump labour
lump sugar
lump sum
lumpectomies
lumpectomy
lumpen
lumpenly
lumper
lumpfish
lumpier
lumpiest
lumpily
lumpiness
lumpingly
lumpish
lumpishly
lumpishness
lumpkin

WORDS THAT END LIKE LUMPENPROLETARIAT

all that
and all that
and that
as all that
at
be all that
beat
been-there done-that
boat
body fat
Buriat
cat
chat
commentariat
fiat
professoriat
shariat
sheriat
the subsidiariat
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Synonyms and antonyms of lumpenproletariat in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lumpenproletariat» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LUMPENPROLETARIAT

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The translations of lumpenproletariat from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lumpenproletariat» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

流氓无产者
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lumpenproletariado
570 millions of speakers

English

lumpenproletariat
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

lumpenproletariat
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

lumpenproletariat
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

люмпен-пролетариат
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lumpenproletariat
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লুম্পেন প্রলেতারিয়েত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lumpenprolétariat
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lumpenproletariat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lumpenproletariat
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ルンペンプロレタリアート
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

lumpenproletariat
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lumpenproletariat
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

lumpenproletariat
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

lumpenproletariat
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लंपन-प्रोलेटारीट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lümpen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sottoproletariato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lumpenproletariat
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

люмпен - пролетаріат
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

proletariat
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

λούμπεν προλεταριάτο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lumpenproletariat
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

trasproletariatet
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

filleproletariatet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lumpenproletariat

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LUMPENPROLETARIAT»

The term «lumpenproletariat» is normally little used and occupies the 134.513 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LUMPENPROLETARIAT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lumpenproletariat

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LUMPENPROLETARIAT»

Discover the use of lumpenproletariat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lumpenproletariat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression
The vexed status of the lumpenproletariat within political theory closely resembles the odd rank of the grotesque in aesthetic theory. Much as the aesthetic category disrupts generic distinctions and classifications in the cultural arena, the ...
William Solomon, 2009
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Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought
2 Definitional Problems Involving the Term Lumpenproletariat When interpreting this term, one of the first difficulties one is faced with is the fact that the word lumpenproletariat is a misleading Germanism. In German, the noun "Lumpen" means ...
Bob Jessop, Russell Wheatley, 1999
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Race and the Foundations of Knowledge: Cultural Amnesia in ...
Fanon, for example, notes, “Colonialism will also find in the lumpenproletariat a considerable space for maneuvering. For this reason any movement for freedom ought to give its fullest attention to this lumpenproletariat” (Wretched 109).
Joseph A. Young, Jana Evans Braziel, 2006
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The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History
For men, the range of self-help occupations among the young people who constituted the bulk of the lumpenproletariat included hawking, apprenticeship in the informal economy and crime. Intermittent wage employment for older and less  ...
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, 2002
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Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red
lumpenproletariat exist outside of the binary opposition between exploiter and exploited, conceived as the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. They were the class that was not a class, to the extent that, as Hayes has noted: 'They were a class only ...
Dave Berry, Alex Prichard, Ruth Kinna, 2012
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Deleuze, Marx and Politics
the proletariat's relation to the manifold social relations of capital and the critique of work. Whilst the first part of the chapter follows the empirical detail of Marx's critique of the lumpenproletariat (and, in this, shows some of Marx's own minor or  ...
Nicholas Thoburn, 2003
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Marxism at Work: Ideology, Class and French Socialism During ...
lumpenproletariat. Whether Marxists have employed the concept analytically, labelling a distinct non-working and non-property- owning class, or polemically, libelling the marginal and the deviant, they have agreed that the lumpenproletariat ...
Robert Stuart, 2002
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Peasants Populism and Postmodernism: The Return of the ...
Tracing the emergence and re-emergence of the agrarian myth in the past century the argument in this book is that at the centre of the discourse about the cultural identity of "otherness/difference" lies the concept of an innate "peasant ...
Dr Tom Brass, 2013
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Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist
part of the lumpenproletariat, the more alienated they would feel. Given these developments, Newton theorized that blacks were quickly becoming valueless to the American capitalist economy. He argued that the black ghetto in America ...
Judson L. Jeffries, 2006
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Stratification and Organization: Selected Papers
These people form the lumpenproletariat, the ragged casual laborers, petty criminals, drunks, and cast-offs of urban society. Such people offend the principles of bourgeois society. They are the kind of peoplethat respectable workers fear their ...
Arthur L. Stinchcombe, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LUMPENPROLETARIAT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lumpenproletariat is used in the context of the following news items.
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Solving Homelessness in Berkeley
Today we see a sort of lumpenproletariat, often sitting on the sidewalks. Many of them occupy more than two square feet, with their stuff. «Berkeley Daily Planet, Jul 15»
2
Angels and Demons
... where, one imagines, members seldom use words like “heteronormative” and “lumpenproletariat” or refer to “gender and sexual identity,” as ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
A couple of summer offerings
Particularly like the way in which you blame the lumpenproletariat. They are too dumb to know better, but you're not. Instead you prefer to preen ... «PJ Media, Jul 15»
4
Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks …
JOHNSON: Well, street in the lumpenproletariat. You know, street is, you know, what would be defined as ghetto. But brotherman is an elevated level of speech. «St. Louis Public Radio, Jun 15»
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Rey Camoy, little-known peripatetic Japanese painter of the human …
Camoy's focus on the Lumpenproletariat figures he encountered on his travels in Europe and Latin America retain an archetypal texture, as if ... «Tokyo Art Beat, Jun 15»
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Never a good turn in the corridors of power
First, he once chanced on a quote from "Karel" (his pronunciation) Marx on the definition of lumpenproletariat (rabble). "Alongside decayed ... «Sowetan Live, Jun 15»
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Public College Builds Gay-Only Study Lounge–For “Inclusion”
... exterminate English-speaking heterosexual Caucasians and construct a new society with a Spanish-speaking lumpenproletariat of illegal ... «Liberty News Now, Jun 15»
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VIDEO: Robert Scheer Identifies a 'Serious Division' Between His …
My reading of American history—yes, we always can have lumpenproletariat. We will have drunken people doing this. We'll have—. You know. «Truthdig, Jun 15»
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Nigeria's Critical Juncture: Boko Haram, Buhari, and the Future of …
Many fighters are therefore part-time, drawn from the vast lumpenproletariat of northeastern Nigeria and the nearby border states. The resulting ... «ISN, Jun 15»
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The right's big history lie: Reagan, Disney, Vietnam and the war to …
Whether studies of the founding fathers got us closer to the historical truth than investigations of Revolutionary-era proto-lumpenproletariat was ... «Salon, May 15»

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