false consciousness

English

Noun

false consciousness (plural false consciousnesses)

(Marxism, social sciences) A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.
- 2007, Roy E. Allen, Human Ecology Economics‎, →ISBN, page 187:
  The author is less inclined than Jung to treat freedom as an ideological illusion or false consciousness.

Translations

faulty understanding due to ideology

Chinese:
Mandarin: 虛假意識, 虚假意识 (xūjiǎ yìshi)
Finnish: väärä tietoisuus
French: please add this translation if you can

German: falsches Bewusstsein
Korean: 허위의식 (heowi-uisik)
Russian: ло́жное созна́ние n (lóžnoje soznánije)
Spanish: please add this translation if you can

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