0 used to describe people who are not clever or well educated, and who are not interested in changing or improving their situation:
the lumpen proletariat (= unskilled working people)
They took political action and proclaimed a ' revolution ' which reflected the true character of their lumpen base.
Strikes are the handiwork of lumpen elements.
A year later, the lumpen military overthrew the government and established a brutal dictatorship.
In our discussion so far, we have been concerned to impose some sort of analytic structure on the lumpen mass of context.
On both occasions it was the unimaginative and politically ambitious members in the party's youth wing who organised lumpen youth (thugs) to do the dirty work.
He must not say things like that, because a lot of lumpen workers say that, too.
None of us is lumpen enough to deride the entire thing.
A hundred years of know-how in transport will be destroyed in one lumpen fell swoop.
