lumpenproletariat, n.All

The Lumpenproletariat (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the dangerous class, the social scum, the passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society, and its conditions of life prepare it far more to be a bribed tool of reaction than a force of revolution.

The Lumpenproletariat (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a mass apart from the industrial workers, living on the crumbs of society, as capable of the most heroic sacrifice as of the basest banditry, bought by the government at 1 franc 50 a day and put in uniform against the proletariat.