Word: lumpenization
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...when the Line changes--as when the Panthers decided that perhaps the lumpen-proletariat of the streets was a little too estranged from society to be good for much of anything--what then? What happens to street kids when they go out fashion...
...fact that DiCara is young or Italian or goes to Harvard should be labeled as "strengths" rather than whatever positions on issues he might take (listed later almost as an afterthought) suggests Epps as little more than a class snob commenting on the fun and games of lumpen politics...
...Erich Segal writes a "novel" about Youth Romance Today" ("Jen ... what would you say if I told you ... I think ... I'm in love with you." "I would say ... you were full of shit." The ellipses are his.) which clings moistly to the top of the bestseller lists, bringing lumpen to the throats of the proletariat (because a baker's daughter can marry a banker's son, even if she dies forthwith) while Harvard classicists are still back in the middle ages translating Greek. Then there's Yale law professor Charles A. Reich (all of whose students, the Times exclaims...
...Segal writes a "novel" about Youth Romance Today ("Jen... what would you say if I told you... I think.. I'm in love with you." "I would say... you were full of shit." The ellipses are his.) which clings moistly to the top of the bestseller lists, bringing Lumpen to the throats of the proletariat (because a baker's daughter can marry a banker's son, even if she dies forthwith) while Harvard classicists are still back in the middle ages translating Greek. Then there's Yale law professor Charles A. Reich (all of whose students, the Times exclaims...
...ruling circle continue to build their technocracy, more and more of the proletariat will become unemployable, become lumpen, until they have become the popular class, the revolutionary class," he said...