Talk:Lumpenbourgeoisie

I like this term very much -- what do we call the class of people in the US who earn a living selling Hawaiian Crabs in malls and shark fin car antenna covers? I cannot think of a better term than this. This is a wonderful article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.194.63.129 (talk • contribs) 17:41, April 17, 2008
 * I am afraid this term would not be applicable to the people you described - they are hardly the "elites".--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:20, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I read once the andre gunder frank book. the article needs to add that the lumpenbougoise according to frank in latin america and the third world also tends to live off in some cases of improductive sources and things which are obstacles to the development of the nations economy such as latifundios and plantations and also that the lifestyles of theses people are characterized by debauchery and imitation of american and high class european modes and that they love expensive imported items that cost the entire nation economy very much in a system of waste which contributes to underdevelopment without any concern for the people of their countries and so they will readily support cruel dictators so the mass of the populations are kept from trying to change this unjust situation.--Eduen (talk) 22:00, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I thought that this term would apply to slum landlords like Hoogstraten and other semi-criminal members of the bourgeoisie, would this be accurate? YaAsehShalom

Current use in German and connection to pre-Frank terminology
I wasn't aware of the term's historical meaning in Marxist sociology (as for Gunder Frank, it seems to be close to "compradore"), for in today's German, although infrequent and rather a political slang term, it pretty much means as much as this, with the emphasis in this case being rather on impostors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobo_(socio-economic_group) A surrogate elite, originating in the much-maligned "intellectual proletariat". (Now you can make up your mind why the term gained currency again.) Maybe some connection can be drawn here from the prior usages in sociological thought, for these are named in the article, but not expatiated. 2003:C6:1717:2C00:C134:A27E:217B:9218 (talk) 09:01, 5 October 2023 (UTC)