Reply #2: Let us not forget the Bush base of mass voters which Karl Marx [View All]

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...called the lumpenproletariot

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The Lumpenproletariat

Marx also mentions the "dangerous class" or the social scum. Among the members of this group are "ruined and adventurous offshoots of the bourgeoisie, vagabonds, discharged soldiers, discharged jailbirds .. pickpockets, brothel keepers, rag-pickers, beggars" etc. (Bottomore, p. 292). This is the lumpenproletariat. He does not consider this group to be of any importance in terms of potential for creating socialism, if anything they may be considered to have a conservative influence. Other writers and analysts have considered them to have some revolutionary potential. One of the main reasons for mentioning them is to emphasize how capitalism uses, misuses and discards people, not treating them as humans. Today's representative of this class of lumpenproletariat are the homeless and the underclass. <for more> http://leroy.cc.uregina.ca/~gingrich/s28f99.htm

Bush/Cheney, the republicans and the neoconservatives are adding thousands to this class by creating a new forgotten group of Iraq/Afghanistan war veterans stripped of benefits.