...standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat. The 'dangerous class', the social scum,23 that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest...the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue. 21 The German editions have 'elements of education' instead of 'elements of enlightenment and progress'....

...Manifesto's less sanguine forecast for the lumpenproletariat, decaying in the face of capitalist industry: "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...

...both of reactionary analysts and of anarchists like Mikhail Bakunin, the proletariat was imagined as a "passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society." That last sentence is a quotation from the Moore-Engels translation of The Communist Manifesto, but...

...(Macnicol. 1987). Marx and Engels used the phrase 'lumpenproletariat' to describe what they called the '"dangerous class", the social scum, that passively...mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society . . .' (Marx and Engels, 1948: 20). Included in this group were casual labourers and the unemployed....

...revolution. Marx claimed that this group was more likely to be co-opted and converted into informants: "The dangerous class, the social scum, that passively...the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue. "" One could argue that a careful analysis of black ghetto life reveals a viable and cohesive culture...

...enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will.—PE SOCIAL SCUM The "dangerous class," the social scum, that passively...more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.—CM SOCIALISM A group of immature students and sophisticated doctors intend to install a...

...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...

..."The 'dangerous class,' the social scum (lumpenproletariat), that passively rotting mass thrown offby the lowest layers of old society, may, here and there,...the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue" (Nelson Algren, Somebody in Boots [New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1987]). 21 See also Algren's short...

...observation on the revolutionary potential of the quite different bloc of the European lumpenproletariat: "The 'dangerous class,' the social scum, that passively...may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletariat revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed...

...the lowest layers of old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletariat revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare...the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue" ("Manifesto," 481). 87. It has become something of a commonplace to point out London's debt in The...