"Asmongold is wrong but he's wrong in an interesting way.
"While it's true that lumpens partake in extremely disruptive behaviour for the rest of society, states, even capitalist states, have lots of tools to reign them in, from locking them up to helping them find jobs and turning them into productive members of society.
"The top 2%, the financial oligarchy, partake in many of the same behaviours as lumpens, but they can't be arrested, they twist society around to accommodate for their behaviours and use their ill gotten wealth to fund them.
"Obviously lumpens and oligarchs do have a kindred spirit, that's why when the oligarchy was threatened by revolution after ww1 lumpens were immediately recruited into thug organisations to repress proletarian movements.
"Asmongold himself lives the life of a shut-in NEET while being rich af"
The finance aristocracy, in its mode of acquisition as well as in its pleasures, is nothing but the rebirth of the lumpenproletariat on the heights of bourgeois society.
Karl Marx
