单词 | lumpenproletariat |
释义 | lumpenproletariatn. A term applied, originally by Karl Marx, to the lowest and most degraded section of the proletariat; the ‘down and outs’ who make no contribution to the workers' cause. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] laga1616 raff1673 Panchama Bandham1800 lower working class1824 proletariat1852 mudsill1858 netherworld1889 underworld1899 subproletariat1918 underclass1918 lumpenproletariat1924 Fifth Estate1966 Fourth World1976 1924 H. Kuhn tr. K. Marx Class Struggles France i. 38 The financial aristocracy, in its methods of acquisition as well as in its enjoyments, is nothing but the reborn Lumpenproletariat, the rabble on the heights of bourgeois society. 1942 New Statesman 17 Oct. 255/1 He [sc. Hitler] mixed with the Lumpen-proletariat, the nomadic outcasts in the no-man's-land of society. 1971 ‘P. Kavanagh’ Triumph of Evil (1972) ii. 19 The rightist reaction of the white lumpenproletariat is easily imagined. Their instinctive response is racist and anti-intellectual. Derivatives ˈlumpen adj. boorish, stupid, unenlightened, used derisively to describe persons, attitudes, etc., supposed to be characteristic of the lumpenproletariat; also elliptical or as n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective] carlisha1240 lewdc1380 carlc1450 villain1483 ruffian1528 shake-ragged1550 porterlike1568 popular1583 ungracious1584 ordinarya1586 tapsterly1589 mechanic1598 round-headed1598 base-like1600 strummell-patch1600 porterly1603 scrubbing1603 vernaculous1607 plebeian1615 reptile1653 proletarian1663 mobbish1695 low1725 terraefilial1745 low-lifed1747 Whitechapel1785 lowlife1794 boweryish1846 gutter1849 bowery1852 lowish1886 swab1914 lumpen1944 1944 A. Koestler in Horizon Mar. 167 Thus the intelligentsia..becomes the Lumpen-Bourgeoisie in the age of its decay. 1948 J. Steinbeck Russ. Jrnl. (1949) ix. 220 This journal will not be satisfactory either to the ecclesiastical Left, nor the lumpen Right. 1949 A. Wilson Wrong Set 57 Like called to like. The Colonel's lady and Lily O'Grady were both ‘lumpen’ under the skin. 1963 D. Macdonald Against Amer. Grain i. 58 The spoofs of Dada have now become the serious offerings of what one might call the lumpen-avant-garde. 1969 R. Blackburn in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 186 Regis Debray has suggested that the lumpen-bourgeoisie of Latin America substitute police vigilance for an authentic class consciousness. 1970 New Yorker 18 July 22/2 Cope, a well-known proponent of lumpen aesthetics, had met the challenge with cool authority. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Oct. 1202/4 The lumpenbourgeoisie, behind a variety of leaders, is sick of dissent—student demonstrations, anti-apartheid, pornography, drug-taking, immigration, strikes, and crime. 1972 Times 14 Nov. 14/8 The underlying antipathy..towards the lumpen masses. 1973 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 211 128 Fortunately for a lumpen linguist like me, my job doesn't require exercise of the vernier virtuosity that one sees in Linguistic Atlas maps and synopses. 1974 Black Panther 27 Apr. 13/2 The outlaw and the lumpen will make the revolution. The people, the workers, will adopt it. 1974 Listener 2 May 598/2 These institutions are likely to be manipulated only by a comparatively favoured group in society..leaving a real lumpen element at the bottom. ˈlumpenproleˈtarian adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [adjective] draffsacked1548 sordid1596 dunghilly1616 proletarious1654 proletaneous1656 proletical1659 raff1761 raffish1795 proletarian1848 riff-raffy1850 proletary1854 low-down1865 underworld1929 lumpenproletarian1936 prole1938 nitty-gritty1948 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > person of the lowest class ribalda1250 kitchen knave1440 scullion1483 scudler1488 canel raker?1518 channel raker1575 proletary1576 muckworm1649 proletariana1657 infimate1733 proletaire1796 coolie1803 gutterling1846 mudsill1858 prole1887 gutter-sparrow1890 gutter-bird1896 underworldling1928 delta1932 lumpenproletarian1936 proly1959 1936 R. Gessner Some of my Best Friends are Jews xxii. 306 No bandits dared attack her desperate inhabitants, the rough and dangerous Jews who had become lumpen-proletarians under the Czar. 1937 F. Borkenau Spanish Cockpit i. 15 A not unimportant number of these ‘lumpenproletarian’ elements have joined the anarchist movement. 1940 ‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 132 The lumpen-proletarian fringe..composed partly of genuine artists and partly of genuine scoundrels. 1958 Time 28 June 35/3 At his cinematic best a shaggy lumpen-proletarian helplessly meshed in the woof of modern life..Charlie Chaplin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1924 |
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