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- | '''False consciousness''' or '''false needs''' is the [[Marxist]] [[thesis]] the [[Culture industry|Culture industries]] cultivate [[false need]]s; that is, needs created and satisfied by capitalism. [[True]] needs, in contrast, are [[freedom]], [[creativity]], or [[genuine]] [[happiness]]. [[Herbert Marcuse]] was the first to demarcate true needs from [[false need]]s. | + | '''False consciousness''' or '''false needs''' is the [[Marxist]] [[thesis]] the [[Culture industry|Culture industries]] cultivate [[false need]]s; that is, needs created and satisfied by capitalism. [[True]] needs, in contrast, are [[freedom]], [[creativity]], or [[genuine]] [[happiness]]. [[Herbert Marcuse]] was the first to demarcate '''true''' needs from '''false needs'''. |
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False consciousness or false needs is the Marxist thesis the Culture industries cultivate false needs; that is, needs created and satisfied by capitalism. True needs, in contrast, are freedom, creativity, or genuine happiness. Herbert Marcuse was the first to demarcate true needs from false needs.
See also
- Authenticity
- Class consciousness
- Character mask
- Commodity fetishism
- Critical theory
- Culture industry
- Introspection illusion
- Need
- One-Dimensional Man
- Political consciousness
- Subconscious (the primary quote and Freud's work were contemporary).
- System justification
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