Lumpenization and its Discontents: Disagreements About the Lumpen Classes

This week the Law Boyz are back with a special guest, Kevin. We discuss the concept of the lumpenproletariat and their historical role as foot soldiers of reaction. Then we all argue about the police. Peter Stallybrass (1990) Marx and Heterogeneity: Thinking the Lumpenproletariat, Representations, No. 31, Special Issue: The Margins of Identity in Nineteenth-Century England, pp. 69-95Nicholas Thoburn (2002) Difference in Marx: the lumpenproletariat and the proletarian unnamable,  Economy and Society, 31:3, 434-460Robert L. Bussard (1987) The ‘dangerous class’ of Marx and Engels: The rise of the idea of the Lumpenproletariat, History of European Ideas, 8:6, 675-692Music: Johnny Cash- This Side of the LawSupport the Show.