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Single Idea 21999
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism
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Full Idea
False consciousness involves failing to see things as they really are. It comes about because a society's superstructure can conceal the real basis of the society.
Gist of Idea
False consciousness results from concealment by the superstructure
Source
report of Karl Marx (works [1860]) by Peter Singer - Marx 9
Book Ref
Singer,Peter: 'Marx' [OUP 1996], p.63
A Reaction
That seems a poor label, probably revealing a Hegelian background. It seems a matter of knowledge rather than consciousness. Can a whole mind be in a state of error?
The
36 ideas
with the same theme
[strong control to achieve equality and good lives]:
22536
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There could be private land and public crops, or public land and private crops, or both public
[Aristotle]
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22538
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Owning and sharing property communally increases disagreements
[Aristotle]
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19745
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The nature of people is decided by the government and politics of their society
[Rousseau]
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5273
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Young Hegelians think consciousness is chains for men, where old Hegelians think it the bond of society
[Marx/Engels]
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5283
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In communist society we are not trapped in one activity, but can act freely
[Marx/Engels]
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5282
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If the common interest imposes on the individual, his actions become alienated and enslaving
[Marx/Engels]
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5288
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The class controlling material production also controls mental production
[Marx/Engels]
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5290
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The revolutionary class is opposed to 'class', and represents all of society
[Marx/Engels]
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5294
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To assert themselves as individuals, the proletarians must overthrow the State
[Marx/Engels]
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5302
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Modern governments are just bourgeois management committees
[Marx/Engels]
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5304
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Communism aims to abolish not all property, but bourgeois property
[Marx/Engels]
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5307
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Many of the bourgeois rights grievances are a form of self-defence
[Marx/Engels]
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21995
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Must production determine superstructure, or could it be the other way round?
[Singer on Marx]
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20577
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Even decently paid workers still have their produce bought with money stolen from them
[Marx]
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21996
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Freedom only comes when labour is no longer necessary
[Marx]
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22000
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From each according to his ability, to each according to his need
[Marx]
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22969
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People who only have their labour power are the slaves of those permitting them to work
[Marx]
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22970
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Freedom is making the state subordinate to its society
[Marx]
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21989
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Man is dominated by money, which is the essence of his alienation
[Marx]
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23862
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By saying the material dialectic of history aspires to the best, Marx agreed with capitalism
[Weil on Marx]
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21999
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False consciousness results from concealment by the superstructure
[Marx, by Singer]
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23875
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Marx says force is everything, and that the weak will become strong, while remaining the weak
[Weil on Marx]
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18653
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Marx rejected equal rights because they never actually treat people as equals
[Marx, by Kymlicka]
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23054
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Communism is wrong because it restricts the freedom of individuals to contribute to the community
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23047
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Original common ownership is securing private property, not denying it
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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23807
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The collective is the one and only object of false idolatry
[Weil]
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23749
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The problem of the collective is not suppression of persons, but persons erasing themselves
[Weil]
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21240
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The truth about events always comes from the oppressed and disadvantaged
[Sartre, by Bakewell]
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20445
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Levinas says Marxism is the replacement of individualist ethics, by solidarity and sociality
[Levinas, by Critchley]
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21993
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Materialist history says we are subject to incomprehensible forces
[Singer]
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21831
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Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it
[Flanagan]
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9303
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The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable
[Svendsen]
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20099
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For communists history is driven by the proletariat
[Micklethwait/Wooldridge]
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22830
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Give by ability and receive by need, rather than a free labour market
[Charvet]
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23534
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Communism failed to unite western workers with the oppressed of the south
[Berardi]
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23135
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Classic Marxists see liberalism as the ideology of the bourgeoisie
[Gopnik]
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