...(Engels 1969,159) and its denigration as a defining characteristic of the lumpenproletariat—that "passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society" (Marx and Engels 1967, 92; cf. Bailey 1993). If "subproletarian" heterogeneity represents a problem...

...Manifesto of the Communist Party illustrates, misunderstood this aspect of the Marxist class analysis: "The 'dangerous class,' the social scum, that passively...more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary, intrigue."23 The street corner model overlooks those blacks who do work and inflates the black lumpen,...

...standpoint to adopt that of the proletariat. The "dangerous class," the social scum (Lumpenproletariat), that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest...the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue. The social conditions of the old society no longer exist for the proletariat. The proletarian is without...

...ultimately side with the bourgeoisie: "The 'dangerous classes,' the social scum (Lnmpenproletariat), that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest...swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution," Marx and Engels declared; "its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed...

...tbrown off hy the lowest layers of old society, may, here and there, he swept into the movement hy a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a hrihed tool of reartionary intrigue. (McLellan j990: 229 Whilst the proletariat are the 'universal...

...themselves at that of the proletariat. The "dangerous class," the social scum, that passively rotting class thrown off by the lowest layers of old society, may...the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue. In the conditions of the proletariat, those of old society at large are already virtually swamped....

..."dangerous class," the social scum,20 that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society may, here and there, be swept into the...the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue. In the condition of the proletariat, those of old society at large are already virtually swamped. The...

...in order to set themselves on proletarian ground. The lumpenproletariat, that passive putrifying of the lowest layers of old society, may here and there...into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its lot in life, however, disposes it more readily to be bought for the cause of reactionary intrigue....

...future interests. they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat. The "dangerous class," the social scum. that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society. may. here and there. be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions...

...the lumpenproletariat suspect. Frederick Engels and Karl Marx referred to the lumpenproletariat as "the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society."6 Engels warned that this class represents the "scum of the most depraved elements of all...