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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nicjosh83" data-source="post: 24796974" data-attributes="member: 569114">හ්ම්ම්ම්ම්ම්...ඕක මුලින්ම දැක්ක දවස් වල මාත් හොයල බැලුව...මෙන්න මේවා තමයි හම්බුනේ EtymologyKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels are generally considered to have coined the term lumpenproletariat.[2][3] It is composed of the German word lumpen, which is usually translated as "ragged"[4][5] and prolétariat, a French word adopted as a common Marxist term for the class of wage earners in a capitalist system. Hal Draper argued that the root is lump ("knave"), not lumpen.[3] Bussard noted that the meaning of lump shifted from being a person dressed in rags in the 17th century to knavery in the 19th century.[6]DefinitionThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines it as "the lowest stratum of the proletariat. Used originally in Marxist theory to describe those members of the proletariat, especially criminals, vagrants, and the unemployed, who lacked awareness of their collective interest as an oppressed class."[7] In modern usage, it is commonly defined to include the chronically unemployed, the homeless, and career criminals.[8] The Communist Party USA website defines it as follows:[9]</blockquote>

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