📚 noun • entry_id 50453
false consciousness
Meanings (ES + gloss)
falsa conciencia
A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.
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.
The author is less inclined than Jung to treat freedom as an ideological illusion or false consciousness.
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