Subject: Re: AUT: Putting Negri to the Test
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:09:27 -0600



> But wasn't the unemployed part of the
> "lumpenproletariat" who Marx denigrated?
>
In a word, 'no'.  For Marx, the lumpenproletariat were all of the full-time
hustlers, pimps, mountebanks, charlatans, etc.  The criminal underworld,
full-time gangsters, would be modern additions.  I am not sure how I feel
about the whole term, however.  I'm not sure it helps much, although it is
funny that the professional criminal world should be its own class under
capital.  I prefer to think of pimps as petty bourgeois exploiters of
women's sexual labor, personally rather than try to use the somewhat
moralistic category of lumpenproletariat.

Cheers to you Michael,
Chris



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