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

[Douglas Williams]

Hi--

The term false consciousness is from Walter Benjamin in a 1930 review of Siegfried Kracauer's Die Angestellten, drawing from Marx. The idea in Marx is described in terms of alienation and estrangement from real objects and activity.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm


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 From: Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 5:14 PM
Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: vygotsky's theory and symbolic interactionism
 

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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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. 
>