Is this what Marx meant by "lumpenproletariat"?

Is this what Marx meant by "lumpenproletariat"?

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She's not in rags, she's wearing a fucking circus tent for pants.

Yea but she's so lumpen.

I wonder what Marx would make of the fact that the poorest people in first world countries have become the most greedy, hedonistic and fat.

He probably wouldn't be surprised

Also, they aren't more greedy than anyone else

of course not, you can't be serious OP

The "lumpenproletariat" are criminals who profit but just in an illegal manner i.e. drug dealers, pimps, pickpockets, mafia, etc, etc... they are inherently anti-revolutionary because they live off exploitation of the proletariat

"Poorness" (in a sociological or psychological sense) isn't a category that Marx really seriously dealt with, he focused on the structural relationships within the capital structure which are necessary for its reproduction. The "reserve army of labour" as he saw it was structurally necessary to force down wages and maintain profitability because full employment results in declining profitability and inflationary pressures. Sustained full employment would have to destroy capitalism by causing a corporate liquidity crises.
Notice unemployment exploded with the emergence of neoliberalism to an all time high in the 1980s as a response to declining corporate profitability in the 1970s.
This is a pretty good read:
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No, you're thinking of the lumpyproletariat

>but just in an illegal manner
You mean, just in a predatory manner, right?

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No, most business is "predatory" (really Veblen is better here than Marx to get that idea across). By illegal I mean exactly just that the state doesn't recognize the enterprise as legal e.g. heroin production is "entrepreneurial activity" but illegal.
Heroin producers generate value and must valorize their commodities like any other commodity producer. The global "black market" is actually larger than the "legit" economic activity that states tax. How all this plays in the circuit of global capital, and the parapolitics that occur in the shadows that makes this possible, is just as important as the more benign open stuff.