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false consciousness

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false consciousness
n.
In Marxist theory, a failure to recognize the instruments of one's oppression or exploitation as one's own creation, as when members of an oppressed class unwittingly adopt views of the oppressor class.


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Two central ideas emerge: that gangsta rap is founded on a "marginal, streetwise, politically savvy perspective," and that "gangsta vividly dramatizes" the type of false consciousness that ensues when members of a sub-ordinated class in a capitalist/colonialist system are "too overworked and undereducated to fully grasp wider circumstances.
But the discussion among some Democrats usually ends, not by attributing the problem to the party itself, but by blaming the false consciousness of the voters or the machinations of Karl Rove and his allies on the religious right.
In his thick book on the subject, Social Security: False Consciousness and Crisis, John crafted a response which addresses man as a spiritual being, not as simply an economic creature: "We must radically rethink our beliefs about life, reality, and our purpose and destiny.
 
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