False consciousness
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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.
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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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