On Lumpen Ideology by Eldridge Cleaver, Journal Article.
- Title
- On Lumpen Ideology by Eldridge Cleaver, Journal Article.
- Date
- 1972
- Creator
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Description
- A journal article originally published in The Black Scholar in 1972. In the article, former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver writes about Black liberation and the lumpenproletariat. Marx and Engels identified the lumpen as the underclass devoid of class consciousness. Cleaver, however, argues that the class can be organized and used in the movement.
- Primary Subject
- 1900-1999 See all items with this value
- Black power See all items with this value
- Resistance See all items with this value
- Economics See all items with this value
- Additional Subject
- Black Panther Party (BPP)
- Type
- Textual document
- Medium
- Paper
- Format
- JPEG
- HBCU Identifier
- mwchcac.ar.2022.faj.IX.4.28
- HCAC Identifier
- HCAC.JSU.0763
- Rights
- All rights held by the Margaret Walker Center. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University, 601-979-3935 Attn: Center Director.
- Contributing Institution
- Jackson State University
- Source
- Originally published in The Black Scholar, Nov.-Dec. 1972.
- Collection
- The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson
- Item sets
- JSU Frankye Adams Johnson Articles
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