Usually means: Dispossessed, marginalized section of proletariat.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (lumpenproletariat)

noun:  (Marxism) The lowest stratum of the proletariat, whose mental and physical health, mores and morale have deteriorated, through exploitation by the bourgeoisie, to a degree where they cannot build class consciousness and hence cannot be mobilized for the revolution.
noun:  A social underclass; the riffraff.

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