Lumpenproletariat

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lumpenproletariat \Lump`en*pro*le*tar"i*at\, n. (Politics)
     the lowest level of the proletariat, comprising unskilled
     workers, the unemployed, and the dispossessed, alienated from
     the class with with they would normally identify and having
     little or no class solidarity; -- an important element in
     Marxist theory.


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