Recentering the Lumpen Question Today
Understanding Lumpenization and Bonapartism
Tutt, Daniel
http://spectrejournal.com/recentering-the-lumpen-question-today/
Date Written: 2021-03-04
Publisher: Spectre
Year Published: 2021
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX24240
To name a class "lumpenproletariat" is to reveal something that would otherwise prefer to stay hidden. The lumpenproletariat is not merely defined by its non-relation to production, which is the most common definition of the term in Marxist thought, nor is lumpenization reserved only to a process that occurs within the proletariat. Lumpenization is a process of active decomposition, a verb, not merely an analytic or descriptive category.
