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Se cache aR FR ar cen convene daar aPE hee ee ‘ . lugpca--6 igkou points to the syeptous vu. breakdown in the colonised coun ry, and ve see the sane ‘yoptous, perhaps noe prontenced, in the coloniser; to “juvenile cde liaquency," “stea lin - tebauchery and alcoholism," we can add the effects of methedrine and heroin, , The constilution of a lumpen-proletarsat is a phenorenon which obeys its own logic, and neither the brining activity of the missfonnrics nor the decrees of the central . me govermnent can check fits growth, This lutpen-proletariat is like a horde of rate; + < you may kick them and throw stones at them, but cespite your efforts they'll go on gnaving at the reots of the tree, ... dhe Jurpen-proictariat, once it fs constituted, brings all its forces to . endonger the "security" of the town, and is the sign of the irrevocable decay, the - Beagrene ever present at the heart of colonial domination, (p, 104) whe other extremely {mportant part of Eanon's analysis has to do with the chenging value: aud life rtyle of the lumpenproletarfLat in revolutionary struggle, The conditions of tife have shaped them to fight, but the fighting itsclf£ is a new condition which tranc~ forms them into a new kind of people: So the pimps, the booligans, the uncrployed and the petty criminals, urged on from behind, throw. thomselves into the struggle for liberation like stont working men, These ciasslese idlers will be militant and decisive action discover the path that Jeads to nationhood, They ven't become reforned characters to please colcuial societ fitting in vith the "morality of its rulers; quite the contrary, they take for grante. the ir possibi ls ty of entering the city save by hand-grenades and revoivers, These workices less-then-ven exe rehabiiitated In their own eyes and in the eyes of histor: 4h? prostitutes teo, and the maids .,,, all the hopeless dreps of humanity, all who turr in circles betuecn suicide and madness, will recover their balance, once were po forvard, anid merch provdly in the great precession of the awakened nation, (104) jabere are two extremely important points to bear in mind here, if we are to relate forrectly te toe lumpenproleteriat, ‘The first is that we must not tail after their -nisting values and life styles, but must leed them to an agsetaion of their own ‘ikeration throug revolutionary strugpie, The sccond is that they uust be Jed by onsciovs revolutionaries with = cense of the historical condition cf these peaple end 1 eviarer:ss Cf thenr weaknesses and instability, It would be a mistake, probably a fate pistake, to think that the only people qualified to lead them are Individuals distin- guished by tutog similarly unpredictable and lacking in ideological consciousness. Students end Stroet People cudents now cunstituce a significant protion of the entire population, The number of “ollege ecudents aloue new approximately equals the country's total arwed forces plus ‘*s three largest unious (ieamsters, UAW, and United Steelworkers), and the rumber in .%: ‘cthool dis far larger, From the students has come the bull of both the most militant 234 .tteal political forces ¢ tnd street people, tvo everlapping grov; Clearly, the “Het glare ile and Tinney? nlet: via; nizing of atudents are rot eo Tneidences. Ado sivtrats, preticularly those living avay frwa home, are partially and temporarily ee fared, entice, ro 2 Mimbo Letuaen theiz veelthy or working-class past and whatever Preors ey wees biey ete iting channeled inte, Although physically and psychologically agshds oF premier ive inher and childbearing, inecved more energetic and sexually motivat . Clhoen most “sdeiias theagh often omeug Caa mest dntelleccually alert ard best Luformad verplo, they ere branded by 712 classes ec imaature perasites, They are severally not ee ermitted eathey t: acli thei: Jabor or bo own property, Although they way work quite q = ™ ward dn school, they do uct prodece auything, end are therefore not workers, No matter i er 7 pew 5 Cat Se Te. 1 Me fae,