false consciousness
nounEtymology Calque of German falsches Bewusstsein, as used by Friedrich Engels in a letter to Franz Mehring (1893).
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Marxism A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.
Including its brand of social sciences
- The author is less inclined than Jung to treat freedom as an ideological illusion or false consciousness.2007, Roy E. Allen, Human Ecology Economics, →ISBN, page 187:
- 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.2016 January 29, Paul Krugman, “Plutocrats and Prejudice”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Antonyms
- class consciousness