Definition of Lumpens

1. lumpen [n] - See also: lumpen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lumpens

lump
lump in one's throat
lump it
lump sugar
lump sum
lump to one's throat
lump together
lumpability
lumpectomies
lumpectomy
lumped
lumpen
lumpenly
lumpenproletariat
lumpenproletariats
lumpens (current term)
lumper
lumpers
lumpfish
lumpfishes
lumpier
lumpiest
lumpily
lumpiness
lumpinesses
lumping
lumpingly
lumpish
lumpishly
lumpishness

Literary usage of Lumpens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sweet Battlefields: Youth and the Liberian Civil War by Mats Utas (2003)
"lumpens, being "largely unemployed and unemployable youths, mostly male, ... lumpens or subaltern youth (often interchangeable labels) respond in much the ..."

2. The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Parties, Personalities, and Programs by Michael McFaul, Sergei Markov (1993)
"This is a small percentage, but they are professional workers, not lumpens [sic]. We also have many intellectuals—scientific, technological, and cultural ..."

3. Representations of Violence: Art about the Sierra Leone Civil War by Patrick K. Muana, Chris Corcoran, Russell D. Feingold (2005)
"Subaltern reactions: lumpens, students, and the left. Africa Development 22(3-4): 19-43. Richards, Paul. 1996. Fighting for the rain forest: War, ..."

4. Naked Cities by Mute (2006)
"... to fetishise the political agency of the industrial working class and contemptuously dismiss shack dwellers as inevitably reactionary 'lumpens'. ..."

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