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Lumpenproletariat
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| Famous for his faux-naive paintings of the lumpen proletariat at work and at play in the shadows of the nearby Salford mills, Lowry depicted factories that were as far removed from Warhol's eponymous studio as the Russell Club was from the hedonistic excesses of Studio 54 . Marx may have rightly claimed that the lumpen proletariat lacked class consciousness, but that is not to say the lumpen proletariat cannot be galvanized along ethnic lines by using such emotive issues as language, religion and culture. Thereby upholding a tradition Ralph Ellison commented on in Invisible Man of discontented, crafty, and charismatic middle-class black boys inciting the lumpen proletariat for existential fun and profit. |
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