lumpenproletariat

See also: Lumpenproletariat

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Lumpenproletariat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʊm.pən.pɹəʊ.lə.ˈtɛː.ɹi.ət/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

lumpenproletariat (plural lumpenproletariats)

1. (Marxism) The lowest stratum of the proletariat, whose mental and physical health, mores and morale have deteriorated, through exploitation by the bourgeoisie, to a degree where they cannot build class consciousness and hence cannot be mobilized for the revolution.
   • 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 29:

     I hadn't quite figured her out yet: rude snob or lumpenproletariat?

2. A social underclass; the riffraff.

Synonyms

• (riffraff): hoi polloi, mob, rabble, riffraff

Related terms

• lumpenbourgeoisie
• lumpenintelligentsia
• lumpenprole

Translations

in Marxism: the lowest stratum of the proletariat

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流氓無產階級／流氓无产阶级 (liúmáng wúchǎnjiējí), 遊民無產者／游民无产者 (yóumín wúchǎnzhě)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: lompenproletariaat (nl) n
• Finnish: ryysyköyhälistö (fi), ryysyproletariaatti (fi)
• French: lumpenproletariat (fr)
• German: Lumpenproletariat (de) n
• Greek: λούμπεν προλεταριάτο n (loúmpen proletariáto), κουρελοπρολεταριάτο (el) n (koureloproletariáto)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: lumpenproletariátus (hu)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: proletar hina
• Polish: lumpenproletariat (pl) m
• Portuguese: lumpenproletariado m
• Romanian: lumpenproletariat (ro) n
• Russian: лю́мпен-пролетариа́т (ru) m (ljúmpen-proletariát)
• Serbo-Croatian: lumpenproletarijat (sh) m
• Spanish: lumpenproletariado (es) m, lumpemproletariado (es) m, lumpen (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: trasproletariat n
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

the social underclass, the riffraff

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社會底層／社会底层 (shèhuì dǐcéng)

• Finnish: roskaväki (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: ルンペン (rumpen)
• Serbo-Croatian: lumpenproletarijat (sh) m

Further reading

• lumpenproletariat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Lumpenproletariat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lum.pɛn.prɔ.lɛˈta.rjat/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -arjat
• Syllabification: lum‧pen‧pro‧le‧ta‧riat

Noun

lumpenproletariat m inan (related adjective lumpenproletariacki)

1. (collective, Marxism) lumpenproletariat (the lowest stratum of the proletariat)

Declension

Declension of lumpenproletariat

	singular
nominative	lumpenproletariat
genitive	lumpenproletariatu
dative	lumpenproletariatowi
accusative	lumpenproletariat
instrumental	lumpenproletariatem
locative	lumpenproletariacie
vocative	lumpenproletariacie

Related terms

nouns

• lumpenproletariusz

 

Further reading

• lumpenproletariat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lumpenproletariat in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• lumpenproletariat in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Lumpenproletariat.

Noun

lumpenproletariat n (uncountable)

1. (Marxism) lumpenproletariat

Declension

declension of lumpenproletariat (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lumpenproletariat	lumpenproletariatul
genitive/dative	(unui) lumpenproletariat	lumpenproletariatului
vocative	lumpenproletariatule