Originally posted on Children of the Revolution:
It must be acknowledged that although the working class, by definition, includes all of those who don’t own the means of production, their material conditions are relative and vary greatly. An American worker who is given $10 USD per hour and can afford a meal with every 30…
Tag Archives: Lumpenproletariat (rabble proletariat)
Gang Fascism: How Capital Weaponizes the Social Ills It Creates
Originally posted on Left of Left:
By Rainer Shea In?The Peasant War in Germany, Friedrich Engels wrote: The lumpenproletariat, this scum of the decaying elements of all classes, which establishes headquarters in all the big cities, is the worst of all possible allies. It is an absolutely venal, an absolutely brazen crew. If the French workers,…