“Lumpenproletariat” is exactly the kind of idea an educated German theorist would come up with in the wreckage of the industrial revolution and it’s ridiculous to try to carry that notion forward to the age of cell phones and heavily armed maoist prostitutes and if anyone can’t understand that you should throw grass at them until they stop being dorks because they’re too far gone to touch it themselves.
Like ffs read even one anthro text about black market and grey market economies and stop treating The Man’s legal system like anything but a criminal organization.
Kinda off topic but this made me realize why and how China has billionaires but doesn’t allow them to become a class. Was reading a paper on them the other day and I read something like that.
I think it’s more accurate to think of Chinese billionaires as a class, just not one allowed to control the state.
Also from a lot of their attitudes it seems like they are completely loyal to the Party. It’s pretty impressive honestly