false consciousness

English

Noun

false consciousness (plural false consciousnesses)

1. (Marxism, including its brand of social sciences) A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.
   • 2007, Roy E. Allen, Human Ecology Economics‎^[1], →ISBN, page 187:

     The author is less inclined than Jung to treat freedom as an ideological illusion or false consciousness.

Antonyms

• class consciousness

Translations

faulty understanding due to ideology

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 虛假意識／虚假意识 (xūjiǎ yìshí), 虚假意识 (xūjiǎ yìshi)

• Finnish: väärä tietoisuus
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: falsches Bewusstsein
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• Japanese: 虚偽意識 (きょぎいしき, kyogi-ishiki)
• Korean: 허위의식 (heowi-uisik)
• Russian: ло́жное созна́ние n (lóžnoje soznánije)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can