... for a critique of both postcolonial capitalism and contemporary urbanization in countries like India. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 waste capitalism dialectic lumpenproletariat civil society urbanization Earlier versions of this paper were presented at Nehru Memorial Library (New...

... reached are generally self-employed and placed in highly competitive an impasse. The maximum devolution which the Government situations. Large sections of the urban poor, including the is ready to grant does not even approximate what the Tamil lumpenproletariat whose perceptions...

...” with their ideas “nothing but a hodgepodge of all kinds of Marxist leftovers.” 10 She questioned Fanon's own engagement with Marxism, specifically his faith in the lumpenproletariat as a revolutionary vanguard, and, furthermore, she cited what she called Fanon's “worst rhetorical excesses” like his remark...

... struggle undertaken by relationally distinct components could be transformed into that of a proletariat (class-in-itself) to realize itself as such (class-for-itself), significantly entailing the challenge of thinking Marx's quintessential problem of the peasants and the lumpenproletariat raised...

... Indian peasantry into townships and major or Hong Kong since the last world war. cities created an urban lumpenproletariat. Not only Consequently Indian cinema enjoys a measure were they excluded from the basics of shelter, employ- of freedom as to which aspects of Hollywd ment and other...