False Folk Consciousness

August 18, 2008 · 6 Comments 

False Folk Consciousness Source & intelligent commentary: Majority Rights The Marxist theory of False Class Consciousness, simply expressed, pictures the working class as falsely believing themselves to be a free and valued, but actually trapped by capitalist oppression. For the Marxist, just as much as for the Capitalist if not more, everything is about money and economic pressure, and therefore ridiculously far removed from the human experience and what it means to be human. Not that Marxism ever really got anything right. That said, the Marxists were on to something in the broad strokes. The little I’ve read on False Class Consciousness also refers to a Marxist call to action for the working class from being... [Read the full story]

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