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Meanings of lumpenproletariat in English

Russian
люмпен-пролетариат
Portuguese
lumpemproletariado
Spanish
lumpenproletariado
Catalan
lumpenproletariat

Marxist term to describe the underclass.

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          люмпен-пролетариат

          A class of people in a society characterized by low income, low level of education, high unemployment and, as a result of these, a low social status.

                Usage of lumpenproletariat in English
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                If any sportsman's clay was shaped by the lumpenproletariat mentality of our inner cities, the most depraved in the civilised world, it is Rooney.
                The Guardian
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