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lúmpenes

English translation: lumpen

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Spanish term or phrase:lúmpenes
English translation:lumpen
Entered by: Lorena Zuniga

15:00 Mar 6, 2017
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Spanish term or phrase: lúmpenes
Y los anónimos: personalidades sin porvenir, modelos amnésicas, sementales de una sola noche, lúmpenes encantadores, profesionales de la impostura, rentistas de la fotogenia…
Lorena Zuniga
Costa Rica
Local time: 12:26
lumpen
Explanation:
lumpen
Short for lumpenproletariat. A catch-all term used primarily by self-styled Marxists to describe people "below" the proletariat. The lumpen include all people who might belong to the working class, if they worked. The unemployed, disabled, prisoners, and homeless are all part of the lumpen.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lumpen

The Black Panther Solidarity Committees and the Voice of the Lumpen
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27668453?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...
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Cecilia Gowar
United Kingdom
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3lumpen
Cecilia Gowar
4 +2members of the underclass
Simon Bruni
3 +3lowlifes/riffraff
Marie Wilson
3 +1the dregs of society
Wendy Streitparth


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
members of the underclass


Explanation:
lumpen2 masculino (plural lumpen or lúmpenes)

1 (individuo) underprivileged member of society, lumpen (lenguaje técnico)

2 (grupo social) lumpenproletariat (lenguaje técnico), underclass

Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:26
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 151

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  MPGS: :-)
1 min
agree  philgoddard
17 mins
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
lowlifes/riffraff


Explanation:
These are two more options. Lowlife or low-life. Riffraff or riff-raff.

Dickens Refigured: Bodies, Desires, and Other Histories
https://books.google.es/books?isbn=071904247X
John Schad - 1996 - ‎Literary Criticism
... includes paradigms for protagonists from the lumpen but not for successful working-class ... A protagonist from the lower orders can be represented only if he is denied ... of history, and the contaminated riff-raff known as the lumpenproletariat. ... refers to as 'lower life'.

Marie Wilson
Spain
Local time: 20:26
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 88

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Davis
21 mins
  -> Thanks, Charles.
agree  Robert Carter: Pejorative seems to be the way to go here. For the UK, it's "riff-raff", I think.
35 mins
  -> Thank you, Robert.
agree  neilmac: Very few hits for "charming riff-raff", but who's counting... :)
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Neil. It has a nice ring to it anyway.
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44 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
lumpen


Explanation:
lumpen
Short for lumpenproletariat. A catch-all term used primarily by self-styled Marxists to describe people "below" the proletariat. The lumpen include all people who might belong to the working class, if they worked. The unemployed, disabled, prisoners, and homeless are all part of the lumpen.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lumpen

The Black Panther Solidarity Committees and the Voice of the Lumpen
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27668453?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...

Cecilia Gowar
United Kingdom
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 227

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Robert Carter: I thought about instead changing it to an adjective: "lumpen charmers", or something like that.
17 mins
  -> Thanks Robert! I think you could say "charming lumpens". As a matter of fact, here's an example!: http://www.huffingtonpost.in/manash-bhattacharjee-/the-lumpe...
agree  neilmac: I use the term occasionally in conversation...
44 mins
  -> Thanks Neilmac!
agree  franglish
4 hrs
  -> Thanks franglish!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
the dregs of society


Explanation:
an offensive expression used to describe the people that you consider are the least important or useful in society
http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/the-dregs-of-society-h...

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 20:26
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 18

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac
32 mins
  -> Many thanks, Neil!
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