False consciousness
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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 needs'''. | + | '''False consciousness''' or '''false needs''' is the [[Marxist]] [[thesis]] that 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''' is the [[Marxist]] [[thesis]] that [[material]] and institutional processes in [[capitalism|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 [[Base and superstructure (Marxism)|pre-socialist society]] (relative to the [[secular trend|secular]] development of human society in general). | ||
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False consciousness or false needs is the Marxist thesis that 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.
Background
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 (relative to the secular development of human society in general).
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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