Although the original meaning of the term, is now the lumpen - is not just a lumpen element of society.This word is often referred to the representatives of the criminal world, as well as just vagrants and beggars.Lumpen layer played a decisive role in many revolutionary movements, as a man who has no past, no specific goals in life or state, which he values very easily lend itself to any campaign.Financially representative of this layer is also easy to interest, although sometimes it is enough to promise a bright future.
Literally, the term "lumpen" means rags, rags that exactly describes the unpleasant and untidy image of a typical hobo.If we look at the modern world, then it is a place that class.This is not necessarily a tramp, begging in public places or living in railway stations.Modern lumpen - a person who has no purpose in life, there is no dream (or she knowingly nevoplotima).
For example, many teams have such an employee (whether male or female) between the ages of 25 and 40-50.He lives with his parents usually (at least - in the hostel).Every day goes to work and performs the same function.He does not care what he's wearing, and shod that he eats and drinks.And certainly he has a dream, which he thinks every evening, returning from work.It can be a house in California, a private helicopter or even a trip to Mars.The essence of the dream is absolutely not important, the main thing that he just thinks about it, doing nothing to implement.
And if there was someone who could convince such lumpen that his dream is feasible and it is only necessary to join certain movements (the party, sect), the dreamer drop everything (though to throw something in the long run nothing) and will run for leader.Will hand out leaflets (with the same thoroughness with which went to work), to run from house to house campaign or even kill, and at virtually no cost - just to fight for a dream.
took advantage of this at the time communists engaging in the movement of "humiliated and insulted".That lumpen-proletarian once overthrew the existing government, handing over power to the Bolsheviks in the hope that they will realize his dream.And even if it never happens, he will still believe, and when disappointed, it will continue to operate by inertia, waiting for a new leader.So lumpen - it is not always a tramp or beggar.Outwardly, he may not particularly different from the surrounding mass, as it is more a way of life or state of mind.
addition, Marx introduced another concept: lumpenization society, meaning an increase in the proportion of representatives of this class.So the company is easier to manage, it is easier exposed to suggestion.Every revolutionary idea can be put into practice only in the presence of sufficient social degradation.
During Soviet times, the image is so firmly entered the life, has become common and to some extent even exemplary, that now there are even separate directions in art, showing images of the Soviet, where the lumpen - is the protagonist of stories.In particular, in this direction works the artist Alexander Erashov, part of the work is done in the style of so-called lumpen surrealism.
