false consciousness en · NOUN
Etymology
Calque of German falsches Bewusstsein, as used by Friedrich Engels in a letter to Franz Mehring (1893).
Meanings
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(Marxism, qualifier:including its brand of social sciences) 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.
2016 January 29, Paul Krugman, “Plutocrats and Prejudice”, in The New York Times, →ISSN: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| false consciousnesses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Translations (10)
ru ло́жное созна́ние (faulty understanding due to ideology) · tr yanlış bilinç (faulty understanding due to ideology) · es falsa conciencia (faulty understanding due to ideology) · cmn 虛假意識 /虚假意识 (faulty understanding due to ideology) · ar وَعْي زَائِف (faulty understanding due to ideology) · ms kesedaran palsu (faulty understanding due to ideology) · ja 虚偽意識 (faulty understanding due to ideology) · ko 허위의식 (faulty understanding due to ideology) · fi väärä tietoisuus (faulty understanding due to ideology) · de falsches Bewusstsein (faulty understanding due to ideology)
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