The dangerous class: the concept of the Lumpenproletariat

The lumpenproletariat : etymology, lexicology, and translation -- The lumpenproletariat as an economic category -- The lumpenproletariat as a cultural category and style of life -- The lumpenproletariat as a political category -- The lumpenproletariat as a new revolutionary vanguard -- The lumpenpro...

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1. Verfasser: Barrow, Clyde W. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press October 2020
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Zusammenfassung:The lumpenproletariat : etymology, lexicology, and translation -- The lumpenproletariat as an economic category -- The lumpenproletariat as a cultural category and style of life -- The lumpenproletariat as a political category -- The lumpenproletariat as a new revolutionary vanguard -- The lumpenproletariat : communism or dystopia? -- Conclusion: The rise of a lumpen-state?
"Marx and Engels' concept of the "lumpenproletariat," or underclass (an anglicized, politically neutral term), appears in The Communist Manifesto and other writings. It refers to "the dangerous class, the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society," whose lowly status made its residents potential tools of the capitalists against the working class. Surprisingly, no one has made a substantial study of the lumpenproletariat in Marxist thought until now. Clyde Barrow argues that recent discussions about the downward spiral of the American white working class ("its main problem is that it is not working") have reactivated the concept of the lumpenproletariat even among arguments that it is a term so ill-defined as to not be theoretical.
Using techniques from etymology, lexicology, and translation, Barrow brings analytical coherence to the concept of the lumpenproletariat, revealing it to be an inherent component of Marx and Engels' analysis of the historical origins of capitalism. However, a proletariat that is destined to decay into an underclass may pose insurmountable obstacles to a theory of revolutionary agency in post-industrial capitalism. The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat is the first comprehensive analysis of the concept of the lumpenproletariat in Marxist political theory. Clyde Barrow excavates and analyzes the use of this term from its introduction by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in The German Ideology (1846) and The Communist Manifesto (1848) through the central role of the relative surplus population in Post-Marxist political theory.
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 179-192. - Index
Beschreibung:vi, 196 Seiten Diagramme
ISBN:9780472132249

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