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false consciousness

noun

Etymology

Calque of German falsches Bewusstsein, as used by Friedrich Engels in a letter to Franz Mehring (1893).

  1. calqued from falsches Bewusstsein

Definitions

  1. A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.

    • The author is less inclined than Jung to treat freedom as an ideological illusion or false consciousness.
    • If the ugliness in American politics is all, or almost all, about the influence of big money, then working-class voters who support the right are victims of false consciousness.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for false consciousness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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