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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: On Violence and Spontaneity

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Recontextualizing the Lumpin Proletariat

The lumpin proletariat, originally defined by Marx as outcast and degenerated individuals in industrial centers, includes beggars, prostitutes, and criminals. Fanon redefines this term in a colonial context, suggesting that the uneducated rural peasantry can be free of colonial ideologies compared to the urban proletariat. This recontextualization shifts the meaning of the lumpin proletariat in interesting ways.

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