False Consciousness: An Essay on Mystification By Guenter Lewy Transaction Press, 150 pp., $17.95
“False consciousness” is a pseudo-scientific metaphor inspired by Karl Marx, coined by Friedrich Engels, and exploited ever since by their disciples. Its function as metaphor is to explain away the rejection by human beings, especially workers, of Marxist doctrine, and their preference for democracy and competitive capitalism. “False consciousness” (hereinafter referred to as falscon) is for Marxists the most pervasive disease in the world today.
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