Modern Times and its Discontents: Understanding the Role of Fascism in the Lumpenproletariat through American Political Society

• In Event: The Politics of Authoritarianism and Freedom

Brief Overview

Detailing a history of the lumpenproletariat, the middle-class worker in American history, and evolving ideology in the twenty-first century, Marx’s lumpenproletariat theory applies to American politics to explain discontent and political force.

Author

• Caity Gallagher, DePaul University