[Xmca-l] Re: vygotsky's theory and symbolic interactionism

[Andy Blunden]

Tom, so far as I know, the term "false consciousness" was invented by 
feminists in the 1970s and was never used by Marx, and I don't think the 
concept is consistent with his ideas, as expressed in the Theses on 
Feuerbach which you quoted, for example.
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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Tom Richardson wrote:
> ... In the first place, it should be noted that Marx, like Spinoza and later
> Freud, believed that most of what men consciously think is "false"
> consciousness, is ideology and rationalization; that the true mainsprings
> of man's actions are unconscious to him. 
>