Than lumpens differ from marginals
Than lumpens differ from marginals
In each society side by side with socially adapted citizens there are people who have lost their social roots, which are alien to the moral code, they understand only the language of brute physical force.
Lumpen
People are usually referred to as lumpen, whosocial roots are absent, who also do not have any property, and they live at the expense of one-time earnings. But more often their source of existence are various types of social and state benefits. In general, this category should be attributed homeless people, as well as citizens like them. If to explain more simply, the lumpen is a person who does not lead a labor activity, he begs, wanders, in other words - homeless. Translated from German, the word "lumpen" means "rags". This is a kind of ragamuffin who fell to the "bottom" of life, fell out of their midst. The more lumpens become in society, the greater the threat to society they represent. Their environment is a kind of stronghold of various extremist-minded individuals and organizations. The Marxist theory used even such an expression as the Lumpenproletariat, characterizing this word of vagabonds, criminals, beggars, and also the dregs of human society as a whole. Under Soviet rule this was a dirty word. Marginals
Marginals and lumpens are not one and the same thing, althoughbetween these groups of people have much in common. The very concept of "marginality" in sociology means a person who is between two different social groups, when from one of them the citizen has already split off, and to the second one has not yet beaten. These are the so-called bright representatives of the lower classes, or the social "bottom". This social status greatly affects the psyche, mutilating it. Often marginalized are people who passed the war, immigrants who could not adapt to the conditions of life in their new homeland, who could not fit into the social conditions of the modern environment for them. During the collectivization that took place in the USSR, in the 20-30s, rural residents migrated massively city, but the urban environment accepted them reluctantly, and with the rural environment all the roots and connections were severed. Their spiritual values collapsed, and established social ties were torn. And it was precisely these layers of the population that needed a "firm hand", an established order at the state level, and this fact served as a social base for the anti-democratic regime. Apparently, lumpens and marginals are not identical concepts, although they have much in common. In modern reality, the word "lumpen" is practically not used, calling homeless people marginalized. Although this word can be characterized and people who have housing, but leading an antisocial lifestyle.
