Lumpenproletariat

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  • noun. The lowest stratum of the proletariat. Used originally in Marxist theory to describe those members of the proletariat, especially criminals, vagrants, and the unemployed, who lacked awareness of their collective interest as an oppressed class.
  • noun. An underclass.
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  • noun. the lowest level of the proletariat, comprising unskilled workers, the unemployed, and the dispossessed, alienated from the class with with they would normally identify and having little or no class solidarity; -- an important element in Marxist theory.
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  • noun. the lowest stratum of the proletariat
  • noun. a social underclass; the riffraff
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  • noun. (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement
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