Lumpen
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Lumpen can refer to:
- Lumpen (magazine), a Chicago-based art and politics magazine
- LumpenproletariatLumpenproletariatLumpenproletariat, a collective term from Lumpenproletarier , was first defined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The German Ideology and later elaborated on in other works by Marx...
, a term in Marxist economics - LumpenbourgeoisieLumpenbourgeoisieLumpenbourgeoisie is a term used primarily in the context of colonial and neocolonial elites in Latin America, which became heavily dependent and supportive of the neocolonial powers...
- Swedish slang for military serviceMilitary serviceMilitary service, in its simplest sense, is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, whether as a chosen job or as a result of an involuntary draft . Some nations require a specific amount of military service from every citizen...
, adopted by armed forces as a near-formal word.