Lumpenproletariat


The '''Lumpenproletariat''' are those whom Marx and his contemporaries viewed as ''not useful'' to establishing worldwide socialism, basically riff-raff. Those deemed the lumpenproletariat were mostly [[incel]]s, criminals, or those that serviced incels. More specifically the lumpenproletariat included:<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/0191-6599%2887%2990164-1</ref>
{{Quote|vagabonds (homeless/grifters), [...] discharged convicts [...] lazzaroni (gig-working, or begging homeless), pickpockets, [...] gamblers, brothel keepers, porters, literati, organ grinders, rag-pickers (nowadays, can-collecting, and the like), knife-grinders, tinkers (blue-collar workers), and beggars|Karl Marx}}
In other words the makeup of most incel forums.
==Variations==
There have been various other characterizations of the lower social orders, such as the Roman word "Proletarius", Burke's "mob", and Hegel's "rabble" (Pobel), and [[Andy Nowicki]]'s "low-status male". What is somewhat unique about the term, "lumpenproletariat", is it attempts to separate the very lowest classes, politically, from the rest of the lower class.
==Marxist Perception of Incels as a Reactionary Group==
Marxists, when orthodox in their ideology but stunted in their ability to deduce and reliably ascertain the causes and effects of social malaise; have a tendency to retroactively group incels as a whole as a broadly reactionary right-wing stratum. This is done because of not only hypergamy (which itself is a product of capitalist societies cultural reinforcement as a matter of its existence.) But as a maladaptive social degenerative force. Society, as a monolithic entity responds to the logical occurrence of inceldom in a hypergamist capitalist society by treating it as a sort of cultural cancer. Due to this maladaptation by society and culture at large, the common incel tends to become a part of the faceless, unconscious lumpenproletarian mass

===Alleged manifestation of lumpenproletariat alliance with right-wing movements===
Anti-fascist socialists also claim the lumpenproletariat was instrumental to the rise of Hitler, with claims the Nazi party's paramilitary group [[Sturmabteilung]] (SA) allegedly contained many, "lumpens".<ref>https://intransigence.org/2019/03/26/on-the-lumpenproletariat/</ref> The Sturmabteilung engaged in street battles with the Communist Party of Germany's own paramilitary forces, which some saw as analogous to the gamer right-wing protesters at the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally engaging in street fights with left-wingers and anti-racists.

Furthermore, certain contemporary right-wing shows such as [[Alex Jones]]' Infowars are arguably have shown sympathy or pandering to lumpenproletariats, for example, when Alex Jones offered a staff position to someone who's only claim to fame was being a 30 year old [[NEET]] who became famous for refusing to leave his parents house until his parents filed a lawsuit. Marxists would probably argue the Alex Jones show is itself lumpenproletariat.
==See also==
*[[Pauper]]
*[[NEET]]
*[[Sexual Marxism]]

==References==
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