Lumpenproletariat

The Lumpenproletariat are the the backwards masses and "Social Scum" of capitalist class society. Often reactionary, the Lumpenproletariat serve very little revolutionary potential. While not owning any capital, the Lumpenproletariat sustain themselves most commonly through the exploitation of others. Members of the Lumpenproletariat tend to be criminals, vagrants, and the chronically unemployed (different from the Reserve army of labor). Lumpenproletarians don't reconginze their place in class society nor their collective class interests and thus serve as a "passively rotting mass"