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false con·scious·ness
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false consciousnessnoun
A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes, due to ideology
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False consciousness
False consciousness is the Marxist thesis that material and institutional processes in capitalist society are misleading to the proletariat, and to other classes. These processes betray the true relations of forces between those classes, and the real state of affairs regarding the development of pre-socialist society. In Marxist theory, false consciousness is essentially a result of ideological control which the proletariat either do not know they are under or which they disregard with a view to their own POUM. POUM or something like it is required in economics with its presumption of rational agency; otherwise wage laborers would be the conscious supporters of social relations antithetical to their own interests, violating that presumption.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of false consciousness in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of false consciousness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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