English Explanatory Dictionary

false consciousness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.

Word forms

false consciousness false consciousnesses

Etymology

Calque of German falsches Bewusstsein, as used by Friedrich Engels in a letter to Franz Mehring (1893).

Antonyms

class consciousness
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