Any antagonistic class must internally bear something of the lumpenproletariat.

Evidence

The consequence of this multiple presence of the heterogeneous in the structuration of the popular camp is that the latter has an internal complexity which resists any kind of dialectical homogenization. Heterogeneity inhabits the very heart of a homogeneous space. History is not a self-determined process. The opaqueness of an irretrievable ‘outside’ will always tarnish the very categories that define the ‘inside’. To return to our previous example: any kind of underdog, even in the extreme and purely hypothetical case in which it is exclusively a class defined by its location within the relations of production, has to have something of the nature of the lumpenproletariat if it is going to be an antagonistic subject. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 304

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The proletariat’s historical insider status required expelling the lumpenproletariat as outsider. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 290; The lumpenproletariat’s scandal is that its identity depends on articulation. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 293; The oppressive class lacks internal unity because its members deny class membership — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1042

Broader Connections

• The oppressive class lacks internal unity because its members deny class membership #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1042