LUMPENPROLETARIAT
Dictionary entry overview: What does lumpenproletariat mean? • LUMPENPROLETARIAT (noun)
The noun LUMPENPROLETARIAT has 1 sense:
1. (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement
Familiarity information: LUMPENPROLETARIAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LUMPENPROLETARIAT (noun)
Meaning:
(Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("lumpenproletariat" is a kind of...):
labor; labour; proletariat; working class (a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages)
Domain category:
Marxism (the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism)
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