Ragged Revolutionaries: The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature

by Nathaniel Mills

Book Overview

In Marxism, the concept of the lumpenproletariat refers to the masses in rags, outsiders on the edge of society, drifters and criminals, of little or no use politically. But in Ragged Revolutionaries, Nathaniel Mills argues that the lumpenproletariat was central to an overlooked yet vibrant mode of African American Marxism formulated during the Great Depression by black writers on the Communist left.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625342799
• ISBN13: 9781625342799
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"