I think like you, Bill.
In my oppinion, "false consciousness" is an heuristic category that makes
sense only in a historical dialectical materialist perspective of analysis.
Outside the "frame" of a historical dialectical materialist approach it can
become anything - it can receive many different meanings and unpredicted
sense.
Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu
Universidade do Estado da Bahia/Uneb
http://www.uneb.br
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Barowy" <wbarowy@attbi.com>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: false consciousness: real and virtual worlds
Without using the "I..." word, David left me with this impression: he was
making the point that class perspectives do not capture well the rich
complexity of human experience. For me, this protest does not detract from
the usefullness of a class perspective for understanding the challenges that
are common to people within particular socio-economc categories, but rather
notes that there are limits to the usefulness of a class perspective as one
"zooms-in" to examine a finer-grain of activity.
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