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lumpenintelligentsia

lumpenintelligentsia noun: the lowest stratum of the intelligentsia, sometimes associated with informal education.

Noun

lumpenintelligentsia (uncountable)

  1. (Marxism) The lowest stratum of the intelligentsia, sometimes associated with informal education.

Forms of lumpenintelligentsia

alternative formlumpen-intelligentsia

Questions about lumpenintelligentsia

What does lumpenintelligentsia mean?
Lumpenintelligentsia means the lowest stratum of the intelligentsia, sometimes associated with informal education.
What part of speech is lumpenintelligentsia?
Lumpenintelligentsia is a noun.

Words near lumpenintelligentsia in the dictionary

  1. lumpenbourgeois
  2. lumpenbourgeoisie
  3. lumpenbourgeoisies
  4. lumpened
  5. lumpening
  6. lumpenintelligentsia
  7. lumpenism
  8. lumpenly
  9. lumpenprole
  10. lumpenproles
  11. lumpenproletarian

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